CVE-2008-3112

Impact

Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0955.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31055
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31320
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31497
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31600
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31736
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32179
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32180
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32436
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32826
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33194
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35065
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238905-1
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178