CVE-2008-1188
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 12.5%EU EUVD
Multiple buffer overflows in the useEncodingDecl function in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JNLP file with (1) a long key name in the xml header or (2) a long charset value, different issues than CVE-2008-1189, aka "The first two issues."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 12.5% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1197)
- Published
- March 6, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1197 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
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References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29239(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29273(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29498(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29582(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29858(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29897(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30676(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30780(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31497(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32018(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233323-1(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0186.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0210.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0267.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019549(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-066A.html(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0770/references(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856/references(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-009/(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-010/(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41029(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41133(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11209(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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