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CVE-2014-0461

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u71, 7u51, and 8, and Java SE Embedded 7u51, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Libraries.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
• Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
• IBM Forms Viewer: from 4.0.0 before 4.0.0.3; from 8.0.0 before 8.0.1.1 — fixed in 4.0.0.3, 8.0.1.1
• Oracle Java SE: 1.6.0-update71, 1.7.0-update51, 1.8.0
• Oracle Java SE: 1.6.0-update71, 1.7.0-update51, 1.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: IBM Forms Viewer 4.0.0.3, 8.0.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852974709252&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0675.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0685.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/58415
• http://secunia.com/advisories/58974
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59058
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-12.xml
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2912

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