CVE-2008-3112
highpriority · attend · 49EPSS 0.257 · 98 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.
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affected products (45)
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references (82)
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- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0955.htmlenisa_euvd
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