CVE-2014-6517 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-6517?

CVE-2014-6517 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Jdk, published on 15 Oct 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u81, 7u67, and 8u20; Java SE Embedded 7u60; and Jrockit R27.8.3 and R28.3.3 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to JAXP.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-6517?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Oracle Jdk, Oracle Jre, Oracle Jrockit.

How do I fix CVE-2014-6517?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-6517 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-6517 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Jdk

• CVE-2012-4681 Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2012-1723 Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-4805 Deserialization in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-4835 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-4843 Other in n/a Critical 10.0

All Oracle Jdk vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-p339-pvxm-qhgv, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6517.