50501 : Sun Java JDK / JRE Unpack200 JAR Utility Privilege Escalation
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2008-10-02	2008-11-25	2008-12-03	2008-12-03

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
62 days	54 days

Keywords

6755943

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-5352" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Integer overflow in the JAR unpacking utility (unpack200) in the unpack library (unpack.dll) in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier, and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier, allows untrusted applications and applets to gain privileges via a Pack200 compressed JAR file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Classification

Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version JDK/JRE 5.0 Update 17, JDK/JRE 6 Update 11, SDK/JRE 1.4.2_19, SDK/JRE 1.3.1_24 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2008-5352 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 32991 33015 33056 33457 33528 33536 33709 33710 34259 34972 37386
Related OSVDB ID: 50495 50496 50497 50498 50499 50500 50502 50503 50504 50505 50506 50507 50508
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-12/0049.html
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=759
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2009-January/000832.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00384.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-244992-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1018.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1025.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0015.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0016.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0466.html

Tools & Filters

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Credit

regenrecht - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-12-05 | Disagree?

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