View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2015-3149 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (openjdk-8), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): DNE 3, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.
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.