CVE-2008-3109

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2008-07-08
Bugzilla:
454603: CVE-2008-3109 CVE-2008-3110 Security Vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment Scripting Language Support (6529568, 6529579)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Unspecified vulnerability in scripting language support in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier allows 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-2008-3109 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2008:0906 2008-10-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras RHSA-2008:0594 2008-07-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.6.0-sun) RHSA-2008:0594 2008-07-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2008:0906 2008-10-24

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