CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3864
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The Java Update functionality in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22 and JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, when a non-English version of Windows is used, does not retrieve available new JRE versions, which allows remote attackers to leverage vulnerabilities in older releases of this software, aka Bug Id 6869694.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows
• sun jdk 1.5.0
• sun jdk 1.6.0
• sun jre 1.5.0
• sun jre 1.6.0
References
- http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html java.sun.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37231 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37239 secunia.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-269868-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36881 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3131 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6753 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html java.sun.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00010.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37231 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37239 secunia.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-269868-1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36881 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3131 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6753 oval.cisecurity.org