Upstream information

CVE-2008-1188 at MITRE

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."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 368134 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 379038 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 404983 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm >= 1.6.0_sr7.0-1.6.21
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-alsa >= 1.6.0_sr7.0-1.6.21
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-fonts >= 1.6.0_sr7.0-1.6.21
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-jdbc >= 1.6.0_sr7.0-1.6.21
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-plugin >= 1.6.0_sr7.0-1.6.21
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA java-1_6_0-ibm-1.6.0_sr7.0-1.6.21
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • java-1_6_0-ibm >= 1.6.0_sr9.3-0.4.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-alsa >= 1.6.0_sr9.3-0.4.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-fonts >= 1.6.0_sr9.3-0.4.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-jdbc >= 1.6.0_sr9.3-0.4.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-plugin >= 1.6.0_sr9.3-0.4.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA java-1_6_0-ibm-1.6.0_sr9.3-0.4.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • java-1_6_0-ibm >= 1.6.0_sr13.1-0.9.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-alsa >= 1.6.0_sr13.1-0.9.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-fonts >= 1.6.0_sr13.1-0.9.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-jdbc >= 1.6.0_sr13.1-0.9.1
  • java-1_6_0-ibm-plugin >= 1.6.0_sr13.1-0.9.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA java-1_6_0-ibm-1.6.0_sr13.1-0.9.1


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 12 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 java-1_6_0-ibm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 java-1_6_0-ibm Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:10:20 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:25:13 2023