Bug 474790 (CVE-2008-5343)

Summary:	CVE-2008-5343 Java WebStart allows hidden code privilege escalation
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
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-04-11 20:55:53 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	479822, 479823, 489679, 489680, 493287, 493288, 493289, 529660, 529661
Bug Blocks:

Description Marc Schoenefeld 2008-12-05 12:11:12 UTC

Name: CVE-2008-5343
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5343
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 "hidden
code" to make unauthorized network connections and "hijack HTTP
sessions using cookies stored in the browser" via unknown vectors.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-08 09:10:50 UTC

Another mention of this issue:

http://secunia.com/advisories/32991/

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2009-03-25 14:52:36 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 18:45:00 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