CVE-2008-5355 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5355 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 456770 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 465624 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2009:001, published Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 04:03:10 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:31 2025