medium
6.8
CWE
119
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2008-1189: Buffer Overflow

First published: Thu Mar 06 2008(Updated: )

Buffer overflow in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.2_16 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different issue than CVE-2008-1188, aka the "third" issue.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Sun JDK=1.6.0-update_4
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update3
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update11
Sun JDK=1.6.0-update_3
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update9
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update6
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update14
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update1
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update4
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update7
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update12
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update5
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update2
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update13
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update8
Sun JDK=1.5.0-update10
Sun JDK=1.5.0
Sun JDK=1.6.0
Sun JRE=1.6.0-update_3
Sun JRE=1.4.2_7
Sun JRE=1.4.2_16
Sun JRE=1.4.2_4
Sun JRE=1.4.2_2
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update2
Sun JRE=1.6.0-update_1
Sun JRE=1.4.2_15
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update13
Sun JRE=1.6.0-update_2
Sun JRE=1.4.2_13
Sun JRE=1.4.2_1
Sun JRE=1.4.2_8
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update12
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update8
Sun JRE=1.4.2_12
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update11
Sun JRE=1.6.0
Sun JRE=1.4.2_14
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update7
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update3
Sun JRE=1.4.2_10
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update5
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update14
Sun JRE=1.4.2_9
Sun JRE=1.4.2
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update6
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update9
Sun JRE=1.4.2_11
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update1
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update10
Sun JRE=1.6.0-update_4
Sun JRE=1.4.2_3
Sun JRE=1.5.0-update4
Sun JRE=1.4.2_5
Sun JRE=1.4.2_6
Sun JRE=1.5.0
Sun SDK=1.4.2
Sun SDK=1.4.2_10
Sun SDK=1.4.2_12
Sun SDK=1.4.2_14
Sun SDK=1.4.2_13
Sun SDK=1.4.2_6
Sun SDK=1.4.2_2
Sun SDK=1.4.2_5
Sun SDK=1.4.2_1
Sun SDK=1.4.2_4
Sun SDK=1.4.2_7
Sun SDK=1.4.2_8
Sun SDK=1.4.2_16
Sun SDK=1.4.2_11
Sun SDK=1.4.2_9
Sun SDK=1.4.2_3
Sun SDK=1.4.2_15

Remedy

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233323-1

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