Bug 474786 (CVE-2008-5341) - CVE-2008-5341 Java Web Start exposes username and the pathname of the JWS cache
Summary: CVE-2008-5341 Java Web Start exposes username and the pathname of the JWS cache
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-5341
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 479822 479823 489679 489680
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-05 12:00 UTC by Marc Schoenefeld
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-25 17:06:18 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0016 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.5.0-ibm security update 2009-01-13 21:39:54 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0369 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.6.0-ibm security update 2009-03-25 14:52:47 UTC

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
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