CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1188

9.3 HIGH Published 2008-03-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-03-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

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."

Affected configurations

• sun jdk 1.5.0 • sun jdk 1.6.0 • sun jre 1.5.0 • sun jre 1.6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References