UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5537

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5537
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5537.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5537
Upstream
Published
2016-10-25T14:30:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:45:49Z
Severity
  • 5.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Unspecified vulnerability in the NetBeans component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 8.1 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information is from the October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this issue is a directory traversal vulnerability which allows local users with certain permissions to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via a .. (dot dot) in a archive entry in a ZIP file imported as a project.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / netbeans

Package

Name
netbeans
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/netbeans@8.1+dfsg2-3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

8.*

8.0.2+dfsg1-4
8.0.2+dfsg1-5
8.1+dfsg1-1
8.1+dfsg2-1
8.1+dfsg2-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libnb-absolutelayout-java",
            "binary_version": "8.1+dfsg2-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnb-apisupport3-java",
            "binary_version": "8.1+dfsg2-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnb-ide14-java",
            "binary_version": "8.1+dfsg2-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnb-java5-java",
            "binary_version": "8.1+dfsg2-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "netbeans",
            "binary_version": "8.1+dfsg2-3"
        }
    ]
}