National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5232
Original release date:10/05/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier, when applet caching is enabled, allows remote attackers to violate the security model for an applet's outbound connections via a DNS rebinding attack.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#336105
Name: VU#336105
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 103079
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1856
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0609
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-4224
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3895
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018768
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200806-11
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30780
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30676
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9331
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT071483
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT071483
External Source: MISC
Name: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2007kl/materials/D2T1%20-%20Billy%20Rios%20-%20Slipping%20Past%20the%20Firewall.pdf
External Source: MISC
Name: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2007kl/?page_id=148
External Source: XF
Name: sun-java-appletcaching-security-bypass(36941)
External Source: BID
Name: 25918
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20071029 FLEA-2007-0061-1 sun-jre sun-jdk
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0156
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0132
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0100
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:1041
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0963
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2007:055
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200804-20
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0c36b6416afc3868b8b1b9012955e323.html
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 201519
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200804-28
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29897
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29858
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29340
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29214
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29042
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28880
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28777
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28115
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27804
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27716
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27693
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27261
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27206
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:025
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2007-12-14
External Source: MISC
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
External Source: BEA
Name: BEA08-198.00
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9331
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5