Bug 474786 (CVE-2008-5341)

Summary:	CVE-2008-5341 Java Web Start exposes username and the pathname of the JWS cache
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:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jlieskov, kreilly
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	479822, 479823, 489679, 489680
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Description Marc Schoenefeld 2008-12-05 12:00:15 UTC

Name: CVE-2008-5341
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5341
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, and JDK and JRE 5.0
Update 16 and earlier, allows untrusted JWS applications to obtain the
pathname of the JWS cache and the application username via unknown
vectors.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-08 09:06:28 UTC

Another mention of this issue:

http://secunia.com/advisories/32991/ (Point 7) )

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-25 14:52:32 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 5 Vincent Danen 2010-12-25 17:06:18 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-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2008:1025
RHEL Supplementary version 5 (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2008:1025
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2009:0016
RHEL Supplementary version 5 (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2009:0016
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 Extras (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2009:0369
RHEL Supplementary version 5 (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2009:0369