National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3655

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in javaws.exe in Sun Java Web Start in JRE 5.0 Update 11 and earlier, and 6.0 Update 1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long codebase attribute in a JNLP file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070709 EEYE: Sun Java WebStart JNLP Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/473224/100/0/threaded

External Source: XF

Name: sun-java-jnlp-bo(35320)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35320

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-4224

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2477

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2477

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018346

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018346

External Source: BID

Name: 24832

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24832

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070711 SUN Java JNLP Overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/473356/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0829

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0829.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0818

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0818.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2007:056

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_56_ibmjava.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200806-11

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200804-20

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 102996

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102996-1

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2874

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2874

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200804-28

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30780

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30780

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29858

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29858

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28115

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28115

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27266

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27266

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26369

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26369

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26314

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26314

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25981

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25981

External Source: MISC

Name: http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20070705.html

Hyperlink:http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20070705.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11367

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11367

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 37756

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/37756

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20070711 SUN Java JNLP Overflow

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064552.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-12-14

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11367

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11367