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Package(s):java-1.5.0-sun CVE #(s):CVE-2008-1185 CVE-2008-1186 CVE-2008-1187 CVE-2008-1188 CVE-2008-1189 CVE-2008-1190 CVE-2008-1191 CVE-2008-1192 CVE-2008-1193 CVE-2008-1194 CVE-2008-1195 CVE-2008-1196
Created:March 7, 2008 Updated:July 16, 2008
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

Flaws in the JRE allowed an untrusted application or applet to elevate its privileges. This could be exploited by a remote attacker to access local files or execute local applications accessible to the user running the JRE (CVE-2008-1185, CVE-2008-1186)

A flaw was found in the Java XSLT processing classes. An untrusted application or applet could cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the JRE. (CVE-2008-1187)

Several buffer overflow flaws were found in Java Web Start (JWS). An untrusted JNLP application could access local files or execute local applications accessible to the user running the JRE. (CVE-2008-1188, CVE-2008-1189, CVE-2008-1190, CVE-2008-1191, CVE-2008-1196)

A flaw was found in the Java Plug-in. A remote attacker could bypass the same origin policy, executing arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the JRE. (CVE-2008-1192)

A flaw was found in the JRE image parsing libraries. An untrusted application or applet could cause a denial of service, or possible execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the JRE. (CVE-2008-1193)

A flaw was found in the JRE color management library. An untrusted application or applet could trigger a denial of service (JVM crash). (CVE-2008-1194)

The JRE allowed untrusted JavaScript code to create local network connections by the use of Java APIs. A remote attacker could use these flaws to acesss local network services. (CVE-2008-1195)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0186-01 2008-03-06
Ubuntu USN-592-1 2008-03-26
rPath rPSA-2008-0128-1 2008-03-27
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:080 2007-03-28
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:018 2008-04-02
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0210-01 2008-04-03
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:019 2008-04-04
Gentoo 200804-20 2008-04-17
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:025 2008-04-25
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0243-01 2008-04-28
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0244-01 2008-04-28
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0245-01 2008-04-28
rPath rPSA-2008-0128-2 2008-03-27
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0267-01 2008-05-19
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0555-01 2008-07-14

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