PT-2008-2280 · Sun · Jre+1

Published 2008-02-07 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-0657

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sun JDK and JRE versions 6 Update 1 and earlier Sun JDK and JRE versions 5.0 Update 13 and earlier

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet. This can be demonstrated by an application or applet that grants itself privileges to read local files, write to local files, or execute local programs.

Recommendations For Sun JDK and JRE versions 6 Update 1 and earlier, update to a version later than 6 Update 1 to resolve the issue. For Sun JDK and JRE versions 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, update to a version later than 5.0 Update 13 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0657

RHSA-2008:0123

RHSA-2008:0156

RHSA-2008:0210

RHSA-2008:0638

Affected Products

Jdk

Jre

References · 28

• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0123.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-231261-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0210.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/277 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28795 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0657 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0156.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0429 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31497 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28888 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29498 · Note