National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5355

Overview

The "Java Update" feature for Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier does not verify the signature of the JRE that is downloaded, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via DNS man-in-the-middle attacks.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-340A

Name: TA08-340A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-340A.html

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 244989

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-244989-1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www116.nortel.com/pub/repository/CLARIFY/DOCUMENT/2009/03/024431-01.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www116.nortel.com/pub/repository/CLARIFY/DOCUMENT/2009/03/024431-01.pdf

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3339

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3339

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021315

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021315

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=829914&poid=

Hyperlink:http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=829914&poid=

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200911-02

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 37386

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

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5664

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5664

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 50498

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/50498

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5664

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5664