CVE-2008-3111 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2008-3111 Interim 1 5 2023-12-09T02:09:03Z current 2021-05-30T12:43:14Z 2023-12-09T02:09:03Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2008-3111 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. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/SZKNB2OTYDNHKGVCWRJH2FEJC6B4BTLT/#SZKNB2OTYDNHKGVCWRJH2FEJC6B4BTLT E-Mail link for SUSE-SA:2008:042 https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/4752OIXIYOPG4CBJ6JGLL4R7LB5CUVLZ/#4752OIXIYOPG4CBJ6JGLL4R7LB5CUVLZ E-Mail link for SUSE-SA:2008:043 https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/XTK4YQEPH4S7DY43UF72YBUWQFLIOUN4/#XTK4YQEPH4S7DY43UF72YBUWQFLIOUN4 E-Mail link for SUSE-SA:2008:045 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings 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. CVE-2008-3111 critical 10 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C