Bug 474773 (CVE-2008-5340)

Summary: CVE-2008-5340 Java WebStart privilege escalation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marc Schoenefeld <mschoene>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jlieskov, kreilly
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Bug Depends On: 479822, 479823, 489679, 489680, 493287, 493288, 493289, 529660, 529661    
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Description Marc Schoenefeld 2008-12-05 11:07:19 UTC 
Name: CVE-2008-5340
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5340
Reference: SUNALERT:244988
Reference: URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-244988-1

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Web Start (JWS) and Java Plug-in
with Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update
16 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier allows untrusted
JWS applications to gain privileges to access local files or
applications via unknown vectors.
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-08 09:09:44 UTC 
Another mention of this issue:

http://secunia.com/advisories/32991/
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-25 14:52:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Extras for RHEL 4
  Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0369 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0369.html
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-04-23 18:44:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Extras for RHEL 3
  Extras for RHEL 4
  Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0445 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0445.html