CVE-2008-3108

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 2
Modified
Published: 09 Jul 2008, 23:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 09:28

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
10 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
8.62% LOW
9% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Jul 2008, 23:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 09:28
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 8.62%• Percentile: 93%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • sun•jdk

    1.5.0 | 1.5.0:update1 | 1.5.0:update10 | 1.5.0:update2 | 1.5.0:update3 | 1.5.0:update4 | 1.5.0:update5 | 1.5.0:update6 | 1.5.0:update7 | 1.5.0:update7_b03 | 1.5.0:update8 | 1.5.0:update9

  • sun•jre

    1.3.1 | 1.3.1_2 | 1.3.1_03 | 1.3.1_04 | 1.3.1_05 | 1.3.1_06 | 1.3.1_07 | 1.3.1_08 | 1.3.1_09 | 1.3.1_10 | 1.3.1_11 | 1.3.1_12 | 1.3.1_13 | 1.3.1_14 | 1.3.1_15 | 1.3.1_16 | 1.3.1_17 | 1.3.1_18 | 1.3.1_19 | 1.3.1_20 | 1.3.1_21 | 1.3.1_22 | 1.3.1_23 | 1.4.2 | 1.4.2_1 | 1.4.2_2 | 1.4.2_3 | 1.4.2_4 | 1.4.2_5 | 1.4.2_6 | 1.4.2_7 | 1.4.2_8 | 1.4.2_9 | 1.4.2_10 | 1.4.2_11 | 1.4.2_12 | 1.4.2_13 | 1.4.2_14 | 1.4.2_15 | 1.4.2_16 | 1.4.2_17 | 1.4.2_18 | 1.5.0 | 1.5.0:update1 | 1.5.0:update10 | 1.5.0:update2 | 1.5.0:update3 | 1.5.0:update4 | 1.5.0:update5 | 1.5.0:update6 | 1.5.0:update7 | 1.5.0:update8 | 1.5.0:update9

  • sun•sdk

    1.3.1 | 1.3.1_01 | 1.3.1_01a | 1.3.1_02 | 1.3.1_03 | 1.3.1_04 | 1.3.1_05 | 1.3.1_06 | 1.3.1_07 | 1.3.1_08 | 1.3.1_09 | 1.3.1_10 | 1.3.1_11 | 1.3.1_12 | 1.3.1_13 | 1.3.1_14 | 1.3.1_15 | 1.3.1_16 | 1.3.1_17 | 1.3.1_18 | 1.3.1_19 | 1.3.1_20 | 1.3.1_21 | 1.3.1_22 | 1.3.1_23 | 1.4.2 | 1.4.2_1 | 1.4.2_2 | 1.4.2_02 | 1.4.2_03 | 1.4.2_3 | 1.4.2_04 | 1.4.2_4 | 1.4.2_5 | 1.4.2_6 | 1.4.2_7 | 1.4.2_8 | 1.4.2_08 | 1.4.2_09 | 1.4.2_9 | 1.4.2_10 | 1.4.2_11 | 1.4.2_12 | 1.4.2_13 | 1.4.2_14 | 1.4.2_15 | 1.4.2_16 | 1.4.2_17 | 1.4.2_18

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