CVE-2008-3112

Upstream information

CVE-2008-3112 at MITRE

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.

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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: 407935 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 418499 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 436868 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2008:042, published Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SA:2008:043, published Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SA:2008:045, published Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SR:2008:028, published Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SR:2009:010, published Tue, 12 May 2009 08:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1	java-1_4_2-ibm >= 1.4.2_sr13.3-1.1.1 java-1_4_2-ibm-jdbc >= 1.4.2_sr13.3-1.1.1 java-1_4_2-ibm-plugin >= 1.4.2_sr13.3-1.1.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA java-1_4_2-ibm-1.4.2_sr13.3-1.1.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	java-1_4_2-ibm >= 1.4.2_sr13.10-0.4.1 java-1_4_2-ibm-jdbc >= 1.4.2_sr13.10-0.4.1 java-1_4_2-ibm-plugin >= 1.4.2_sr13.10-0.4.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA java-1_4_2-ibm-1.4.2_sr13.10-0.4.1

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:34:39 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:21 2025