Bug 474793 (CVE-2008-5345)

Summary: CVE-2008-5345 JRE allows unauthorized file access and connections to localhost
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marc Schoenefeld <mschoene>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: charlieb-fedora-bugzilla, ckannan, jlieskov, kreilly
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Bug Depends On: 479814, 479815, 479822, 479823, 493287, 493288, 493289, 529660, 529661    
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Description Marc Schoenefeld 2008-12-05 12:17:01 UTC
Name: CVE-2008-5345
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5345
Reference: SUNALERT:246387
Reference: URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-246387-1

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with Sun
JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and
earlier; SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_23
and earlier allows code that is loaded from a local filesystem to read
arbitrary files and make unauthorized connections to localhost via
unknown vectors.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-12-08 09:11:33 UTC
Another mention of this issue:

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

Comment 4 Charlie Brady 2009-03-13 20:35:30 UTC
Red Hat advisory RHSA-2009-0015 says that this is one of the bugs fixed in the release of java-1.6.0-ibm released as errata.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0015.html

Yet the bug is open, and I don't see any indication of the status of java-1.6.0-openjdk. Is it vulnerable?

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-04-23 18:45:04 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

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-07 11:46:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.2

Via RHSA-2009:0466 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0466.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-07 12:11:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.2

Via RHSA-2009:0466 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0466.html