Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JDK 6 Update 4 and earlier, 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.2_16 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet, a different issue than CVE-2008-1186, aka "the first issue."
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 5 | java-1.5.0-sun +5 | 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5 | RHSA-2008:0186 |
| RHEL 4 | java-1.5.0-sun +5 | 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4 | RHSA-2008:0186 |
Advisories 1
- RHSA-2008:0186 Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.5.0-sun security update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 29, 2026
References
- APPLE-SA-2008-09-24 vendor-advisory
- 30676 third-party-advisory
- 1019555 vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2008:018 vendor-advisory
- 32018 third-party-advisory
- java-virtualmachine-multiple-priv-escalation(41025) vdb-entry
- GLSA-200804-28 vendor-advisory
- 29239 third-party-advisory
- 29858 third-party-advisory
- TA08-066A third-party-advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178
- 29582 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2008-0770 vdb-entry
- 30780 third-party-advisory
- 233321 vendor-advisory
- ADV-2008-1856 vdb-entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0010.html
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9672 vdb-entry signature
- GLSA-200804-20 vendor-advisory
- GLSA-200806-11 vendor-advisory
- sun-jre-unspecified-priv-escalation(41138) vdb-entry
- RHSA-2008:0186 vendor-advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179
- 29273 third-party-advisory