CVE-2008-3111
Multiple buffer overflows in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 4, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application, as demonstrated by (a) an application that grants itself privileges to (1) read local files, (2) write to local files, or (3) execute local programs; and as demonstrated by (b) a long value associated with a java-vm-args attribute in a j2se tag in a JNLP file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the GetVMArgsOption function; aka CR 6557220.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.3% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3101)
- Published
- July 9, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3101 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
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31010(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31055(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31320(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31497(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31600(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31736
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32018(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32179(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32180(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37386(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238905-1(Patch)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0595.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0790.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494505/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497041/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30148
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020452
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-193A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2056/references(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2740(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-043/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43664
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10541
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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