Vulnerability in Sun Jdk

CVE-2008-3112

Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.

EPSS: 0.257 (97.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sun Jdk — versions 5.0, 6
Sun Jre — versions 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02
Sun Sdk — versions 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)