CVE-2008-1188: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 12.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the useEncodingDecl function in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JNLP file with (1) a long key name in the xml header or (2) a long charset value, different issues than CVE-2008-1189, aka "The first two issues."

Affected products

• Sun JDK: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only

Published 2008-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.