Name: CVE-2008-5356 Status: Candidate URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5356 Reference: IDEFENSE:20081204 Sun Java JRE TrueType Font Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability Reference: URL:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=757 Reference: SUNALERT:244987 Reference: URL:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-244987-1 Heap-based buffer overflow in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for 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 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType font file.
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.
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.
Another mention of this issue: http://secunia.com/advisories/32991/ (Point 4) ).
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
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