Vulnerability in Sun Jdk

CVE-2008-5357

Integer overflow in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_23 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType font file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.100 (95.5th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 95th percentile — 95.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-5357: held from 0.100 to 0.100.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.100 · newest: 0.100 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Sun Jdk — versions 1.5.0, 1.6.0
  • Sun Jre — versions 1.3.1, 1.3.1_2, 1.3.1_03
  • Sun Sdk — versions 1.3.1, 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_01a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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