National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3111

Overview

Multiple buffer overflows in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 4, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application, as demonstrated by (a) an application that grants itself privileges to (1) read local files, (2) write to local files, or (3) execute local programs; and as demonstrated by (b) a long value associated with a java-vm-args attribute in a j2se tag in a JNLP file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the GetVMArgsOption function; aka CR 6557220.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-193A

Name: TA08-193A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-193A.html

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 238905

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238905-1

External Source: XF

Name: sun-javawebstart-unspecified-bo(43664)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43664

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-043/

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-043/

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2740

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2740

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2056

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2056/references

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020452

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020452

External Source: BID

Name: 30148

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30148

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497041/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080717 ZDI-08-043: Sun Java Web Start vm args Stack Buffer Overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/494505/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0790

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0790.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0595

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0595.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200911-02

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 37386

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/37386

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32180

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32180

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32179

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32179

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32018

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32018

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31736

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31736

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31600

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31600

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31497

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31497

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31320

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31320

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31055

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31055

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31010

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31010

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10541

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10541

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:045

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:043

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:042

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2008-09-24

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10541

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10541