CVE-2008-1188 Information

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the useEncodingDecl function in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier and 5.0 Update 14 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JNLP file with (1) a long key name in the xml header or (2) a long charset value different issues than CVE-2008-1189 aka \The first two issues.\

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29239 http://secunia.com/advisories/29273 http://secunia.com/advisories/29498 http://secunia.com/advisories/29582 http://secunia.com/advisories/29858 http://secunia.com/advisories/29897 http://secunia.com/advisories/30676 http://secunia.com/advisories/30780 http://secunia.com/advisories/31497 http://secunia.com/advisories/32018 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-233323-1 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0186.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0210.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0267.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019549 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-066A.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0770/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1856/references http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-009/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-010/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41029 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41133 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11209