Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 238666 A Security Vulnerability with the processing of fonts in the Java Runtime Environment may allow Elevation of Privileges
Informations
Name SUN-238666 First vendor Publication 2008-07-08
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2010-01-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
Calculate full CVSS 2.0 Vectors scores

Detail

Product: Sun Java Standard Edition (Java SE)

A buffer overflow security vulnerability with the processing of fontsin the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) may allow an untrusted applet orapplication to elevate its privileges. For example, an untrusted appletmay grant itself permissions to read and write local files or executelocal applications that are accessible to the user running theuntrusted applet.

Sun acknowledges with thanks, John Heasman of NGSSoftware for bringingthis issue to our attention.

State: Resolved
First released: 08-Jul-2008

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_238666_a_security

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12
Application 53
Application 49

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-05-28 Name : Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2
File : nvt/macosx_java_for_10_5_upd_2.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for Java 1.4.2
File : nvt/sles10_java-1_4_2-sun0.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for IBM Java 1.5
File : nvt/sles10_java-1_5_0-ibm3.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for Java2
File : nvt/sles9p5033740.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for IBM Java5 JRE and IBMJava5 SDK
File : nvt/sles9p5034680.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for IBM Java 5
File : nvt/sles9p5035420.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for Sun Java security update SUSE-SA:2008:042
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_042.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for java-1_5_0-ibm,IBMJava5 SUSE-SA:2008:045
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_045.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
46962 Sun Java JDK / JRE Font Processing Unspecified Overflow

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2012-08-16 IAVM : 2012-A-0136 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Juniper Network Management Products
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0033662

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-09-13 Name : The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : juniper_nsm_psn_2012_08_689.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-02-22 Name : The remote Unix host has an application that is affected by multiple vulnerab...
File : sun_java_jre_5_16_unix.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-02-22 Name : The remote Unix host has an application that is affected by multiple vulnerab...
File : sun_java_j2se_4_2_18_unix.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-11-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200911-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12206.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0790.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-1043.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-1044.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-27 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2008-0016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_java-1_5_0-sun-080715.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-25 Name : The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : macosx_java_rel7.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-25 Name : The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : macosx_java_10_5_update2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-14 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_java-1_5_0-ibm-5591.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-03 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_java-1_5_0-ibm-5557.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-08-24 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_java-1_4_2-sun-5430.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-08-24 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_java-1_4_2-sun-5431.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-08-24 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_java-1_5_0-sun-5434.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-15 Name : The remote Windows host has an application that is affected by multiple vulne...
File : sun_java_jre_5_16.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-15 Name : The remote Windows host has an application that is affected by multiple vulne...
File : sun_java_j2se_4_2_18.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO