Buffer overflow in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 10, SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18, and SDK and…

Description

Buffer overflow in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 10, SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18, and SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_23 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to font processing.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (35)

• RHSA-2008:1044 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2008-09-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-507.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31600 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2008:042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 32018 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:1043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• GLSA-200911-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 32179 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2740 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 31320 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2008:043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=756717 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 33237 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2056 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 30147 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 32180 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31736 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 33236 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1020461 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=751014 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31497 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• sun-jre-font-bo(43656) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 238666 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• 20081004 VMSA-2008-0016 VMware Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3 and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve multiple security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-300.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2008:045 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0790 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• TA08-193A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 37386 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31010 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:28 UTC.