Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in OpenJDK8

CVE-2015-3149 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The Hotspot component in OpenJDK8 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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