CVE-2008-1186

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2008-03-06
Bugzilla:
436029: CVE-2008-1185 Untrusted applet and application privilege escalation (CVE-2008-1186)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JDK 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.2_16 and earlier, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet, a different issue than CVE-2008-1185, aka "the second issue."

Find out more about CVE-2008-1186 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2008:0186 2008-03-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2008:0186 2008-03-06

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