CVE-2015-3149: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 6.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 6.6z only; version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2017-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.