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CVE-2008-3109

Published: Jul 09, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3109
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
JdkSun*6 (including)
JdkSun6-update_1 (including)6-update_1 (including)
JdkSun6-update_2 (including)6-update_2 (including)
JdkSun6-update_3 (including)6-update_3 (including)
JdkSun6-update_4 (including)6-update_4 (including)
JdkSun6-update_5 (including)6-update_5 (including)
JreSun*6 (including)
JreSun6-update_1 (including)6-update_1 (including)
JreSun6-update_2 (including)6-update_2 (including)
JreSun6-update_3 (including)6-update_3 (including)
JreSun6-update_4 (including)6-update_4 (including)
JreSun6-update_5 (including)6-update_5 (including)
Extras for RHEL 4RedHatjava-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.7-1jpp.2.el4*
Extras for RHEL 4RedHatjava-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el4*
Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatjava-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.7-1jpp.1.el5*
Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatjava-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.2-1jpp.2.el5*
Sun-java6Ubuntufeisty*
Sun-java6Ubuntugutsy*
Sun-java6Ubuntuhardy*
Sun-java6Ubuntuupstream*

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