Info

Last Modified

about 1 month ago

Percent Complete

80%

Disclosure

Dec 03, 2008

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Keywords

6734167 HPSBUX02411 SSRT080111

Description

A security vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) related to deserializing calendar objects may allow an untrusted applet or application to escalate privileges. For example, an untrusted applet may grant itself permissions to read and write local files or execute local applications that are accessible to the user running the untrusted applet.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality, Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version JDK/JRE 5.0 Update 17, JDK/JRE 6 Update 11, SDK/JRE 1.4.2_19, SDK/JRE 1.3.1_24 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2008-5353 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 32991 33015 33056 33457 33528 33536 33709 33710 34233 34259 34605 34889 34972 35065 35118 37386
Related OSVDB ID: 50495 50496 50497 50498 50499 50501 50502 50503 50504 50505 50506 50507 50508
Metasploit ID: 50500
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0246.html
Other Advisory URL: http://blog.cr0.org/2009/05/write-once-own-everyone.html
http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.20090519.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2009-January/000832.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00384.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-244991-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_18_ibmjava.html
http://www13.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c01683026
Generic Exploit URL: http://www.metasploit.com
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1018.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1025.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0015.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0016.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0445.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0466.html

Credit

Sami Koivu -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-12-05 | Disagree?

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