Bug 472208 (CVE-2008-5347)

Summary:	CVE-2008-5347 OpenJDK applet privilege escalation via JAX package access (6592792)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marc Schoenefeld <mschoene>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aph, jlieskov, kreilly, rruss, security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	473317, 479814, 479815
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Comment 2 Marc Schoenefeld 2008-12-05 09:31:18 UTC

Name: CVE-2008-5347
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5347
Reference: SUNALERT:246366
Reference: URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-246366-1

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier allow untrusted applets
and applications to gain privileges via vectors related to access to
inner classes in the (1) JAX-WS and (2) JAXB packages.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-12-07 04:27:20 UTC

java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.20.b09.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-12-07 04:32:50 UTC

java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-7.b12.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-08 09:13:02 UTC

Another mention of this issue:

http://secunia.com/advisories/32991/ (Point 20) ).

Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2010-12-25 17:07:17 UTC

This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 Extras (java-1.6.0-sun) RHSA-2008:1018
RHEL Supplementary version 5 (java-1.6.0-sun) RHSA-2008:1018
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 Extras (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2009:0015
RHEL Supplementary version 5 (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2009:0015