CVE-2016-0483: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 14.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u105, 7u91, and 8u66; Java SE Embedded 8u65; and JRockit R28.3.8 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to AWT. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this is a heap-based buffer overflow in the readImage function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted image data.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Oracle JDK: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.7.0 only; version 1.8.0 only
• Oracle JRE: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.7.0 only; version 1.8.0 only
• Oracle JRockit: version r28.3.8 only

Published 2016-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.