CVE-2007-5238 Information

Description

Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications which allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (the Java Web Start cache location) via an untrusted application aka \three vulnerabilities.\

Reference

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/272 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01234533 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27206 http://secunia.com/advisories/27261 http://secunia.com/advisories/27693 http://secunia.com/advisories/27716 http://secunia.com/advisories/27804 http://secunia.com/advisories/28777 http://secunia.com/advisories/28880 http://secunia.com/advisories/29042 http://secunia.com/advisories/29858 http://secunia.com/advisories/29897 http://secunia.com/advisories/30676 http://secunia.com/advisories/30780 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103073-1 http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/0c36b6416afc3868b8b1b9012955e323.html http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_55_java.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0963.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1041.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0132.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482926/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25920 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018770 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3895 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0609 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36946 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11592