CVE-2008-3440 Information

Description

Sun Java 1.6.0_03 and earlier versions and possibly later versions does not properly verify the authenticity of updates which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1020584 http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco20Amato20-20evilgrade20-20ENG.pdf http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz