Multiple buffer overflows in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 4, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application, as demonstrated by (a) an application that grants itself privileges to (1) read local files, (2) write to local files, or (3) execute local programs; and as demonstrated by (b) a long value associated with a java-vm-args attribute in a j2se tag in a JNLP file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the GetVMArgsOption function; aka CR 6557220.
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3111 cve-icon
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History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-07-09T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:28:40.707Z

Reserved: 2008-07-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3111

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-09T23:41:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-30T16:26:24.187

Link: CVE-2008-3111

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3111 - Bugzilla