CVE-2008-3111: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 4, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application, as demonstrated by (a) an application that grants itself privileges to (1) read local files, (2) write to local files, or (3) execute local programs; and as demonstrated by (b) a long value associated with a java-vm-args attribute in a j2se tag in a JNLP file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the GetVMArgsOption function; aka CR 6557220.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: version 5.0 only; version 6 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.4 only; version 1.4.2_01 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_03 only; version 1.4.2_04 only; version 1.4.2_05 only; …
• Sun SDK: version 1.4 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_01 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_03 only; version 1.4.2_04 only; …

Published 2008-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.