CVE-2016-0466 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0466?

CVE-2016-0466 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, and JRockit components in Oracle Java SE 6u105, 7u91, and 8u66; Java SE Embedded 8u65; and JRockit R28.3.8 allows remote attackers to affect availability via vectors related to JAXP.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0466?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Oracle Jdk, Oracle Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0466?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2016-0466 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0466 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-v75m-88cc-6483, MINI-f2jg-r6cf-h5v6, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0466.