50511 : Sun Java JDK / JRE Java Web Start SingleInstanceImpl Class SI_FILEDIR Property Application Information Enumeration
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date
2008-07-14	2008-12-03

Keywords

6727071 HPSBUX02411 SSRT080111

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-5341" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Unspecified vulnerability in Java Web Start (JWS) and Java Plug-in with Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier, and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier, allows untrusted JWS applications to obtain the pathname of the JWS cache and the application username via unknown vectors, aka CR 6727071.

Classification

Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
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: 2008-5341 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 32991 33015 33457 33536 33710 34233 34447 34605 37386 38539
Related OSVDB ID: 50495 50496 50497 50498 50499 50500 50501 50502 50503 50504 50505 50506 50507 50508 50509 50510 50512 50513 50514
Keyword: c02000725, HPSBMA02486, SSRT090049
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-12/0058.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02000725
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-244988-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_18_ibmjava.html
http://www13.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c01683026
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
Other Advisory URL: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-081
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-2009-0016.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0369.html

Tools & Filters

	35030

Credit

Peter Csepely - Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-12-05 | Disagree?

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