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CVE-2008-1188

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
06/03/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the useEncodingDecl function in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JNLP file with (1) a long key name in the xml header or (2) a long charset value, different issues than CVE-2008-1189, aka "The first two issues."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update11:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update12:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update13:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update14:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update9:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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