CVE-2008-0657

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-02-05
Bugzilla:
431861: CVE-2008-0657 java-1.5.0 Privilege escalation via unstrusted applet and application

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted (1) application or (2) applet, as demonstrated by an application or applet that grants itself privileges to (a) read local files, (b) write to local files, or (c) execute local programs.

Find out more about CVE-2008-0657 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite 5.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2008:0638 2008-08-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2008:0210 2008-04-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 RHSA-2008:0156 2008-03-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2008:0123 2008-02-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2008:0210 2008-04-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras RHSA-2008:0156 2008-03-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2008:0123 2008-02-12

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