CVE-2008-3108

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2008-07-08
Bugzilla:
454604: CVE-2008-3108 Security Vulnerability with JRE fonts processing may allow Elevation of Privileges (6450319)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 10, SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18, and SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_23 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to font processing.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3108 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2008:0790 2008-07-31
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-2008:0790 2008-07-31

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