CVE-2015-1916 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1916?

CVE-2015-1916 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Jul 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in IBM Java 8 before SR1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors related to SSL/TLS and the Secure Socket Extension provider.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1916?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Java.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1916?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1916 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-1916 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1916 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-0485 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-0192 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-5456 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2013-5457 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2013-5458 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-wfg4-xgj4-pp73.