Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-1188 First vendor Publication 2008-03-06
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2019-07-31

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
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1188

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11209
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11209
Title: 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."
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."
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-1188
Version: 3
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras 5
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18
Application 20

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 Sun Java
File : nvt/sles10_java-1_4_2-sun1.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for IBM Java 1.5.0
File : nvt/sles10_java-1_5_0-ibm4.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for Java2
File : nvt/sles9p5023078.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for Sun Java SUSE-SA:2008:018
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_018.nasl
2009-01-23 Name : SuSE Update for IBMJava2,IBMJava5,java-1_4_2-ibm,java-1_5_0-ibm SUSE-SA:2008...
File : nvt/gb_suse_2008_025.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200804-20 (sun-jdk, sun-jre-bin, emul-linux-x86...
File : nvt/glsa_200804_20.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200804-28 (jrockit-jdk-bin)
File : nvt/glsa_200804_28.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200806-11 (ibm-jdk-bin ibm-jre-bin)
File : nvt/glsa_200806_11.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42594 Sun Java Web Start useEncodingDecl() Function XML Header Parsing Overflow

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Oracle Java Web Start xml encoding buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15081 - Revision : 14 - Type : FILE-JAVA

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-01-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0267.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20080714_java__jdk_1_5_0__on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0186.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-27 Name : The remote VMware ESX host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2008-0010.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
2008-09-25 Name : The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : macosx_java_rel7.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-06-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200806-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-28 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200804-28.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-25 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_java-1_5_0-ibm-5183.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200804-20.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_java-1_4_2-sun-5130.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-04 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_java-1_4_2-sun-5131.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_java-1_5_0-sun-5133.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-04-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_java-1_6_0-sun-5132.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-066A.html
CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html
GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml
MISC http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-009/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-010/
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0186.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0210.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0267.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019549
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/29239
http://secunia.com/advisories/29273
http://secunia.com/advisories/29498
http://secunia.com/advisories/29582
http://secunia.com/advisories/29858
http://secunia.com/advisories/29897
http://secunia.com/advisories/30676
http://secunia.com/advisories/30780
http://secunia.com/advisories/31497
http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233323-1
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0770/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856/references
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41029
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41133

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