46958 : Sun Java JDK / JRE Java Web Start CacheEntry Class writeManifest() Method Arbitrary File Creation
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-07-08

Time to Patch
64 days

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-3112" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : 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.

Classification

Exploit: Exploit Private, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Sun Microsystems has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2008-3112 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 31010 31020 31055 31078 31320 31497 31600 31736 32018 32179 32180 32436 32826 33194 35065 37386
SCIP VulDB ID: 3641
Related OSVDB ID: 46955 46956 46957 46959 46960 46961 46962 46963 46964 46965 46966 46967
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0146.html
Generic Exploit URL: http://d2sec.com/products.htm
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-042
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00453.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00467.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238905-1
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
http://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.jsp?actionBtn=Search&txtAlertNumber=PSN-2012-08-689&viewMode=view
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0955.html
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0906.html

Tools & Filters

	34290 34291
	d2sec_javaws2

Credit

Peter Csepely - Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-07-10 | Disagree?

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