CVE-2016-3422 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3422?

CVE-2016-3422 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Jdk, published on 21 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u113, 7u99, and 8u77 allows remote attackers to affect availability via vectors related to 2D.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3422?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Oracle Jdk, Oracle Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3422?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2016-3422 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3422 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
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Also known as GHSA-c95q-vf7r-wm72, MINI-m66g-w34m-fpwm.