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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-1188

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-1188

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/06/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

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."

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ibmjava5-jre
  • suse-upgrade-ibmjava5-sdk
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_4_2-sun
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_4_2-sun-alsa
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_4_2-sun-demo
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_4_2-sun-devel
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_4_2-sun-jdbc
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_4_2-sun-plugin
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_4_2-sun-src
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_5_0-sun
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_5_0-sun-alsa
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_5_0-sun-demo
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_5_0-sun-devel
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_5_0-sun-jdbc
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_5_0-sun-plugin
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_5_0-sun-src
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_6_0-sun
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_6_0-sun-alsa
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_6_0-sun-demo
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_6_0-sun-devel
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_6_0-sun-jdbc
  • suse-upgrade-java-1_6_0-sun-plugin
  • suse-upgrade-java2
  • suse-upgrade-java2-jre
  • suse-upgrade-suse-release

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