CVE-2008-1187

Summary

CVECVE-2008-1187
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-03-06 21:44:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified vulnerability in 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 cause a denial of service (JRE crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to XSLT transforms.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-264 | NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_10 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_11 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_12 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_13 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_4 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_5 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_6 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_7 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_8 All All
Application Sun Jdk 5.0 update_9 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 All All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jdk 6 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jdk All update_14 All All
Application Sun Jdk All update_4 All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_01 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_02 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_03 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_04 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_05 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_06 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_07 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_1 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_10 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_11 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_12 All All All
Application Sun Jre 1.4.2_13 All All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 All All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_10 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_11 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_12 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_13 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_4 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_5 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_6 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_7 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_8 All All
Application Sun Jre 5.0 update_9 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 All All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_1 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_2 All All
Application Sun Jre 6 update_3 All All
Application Sun Jre All All All All
Application Sun Jre All update_14 All All
Application Sun Jre All update_4 All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_01 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_02 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_03 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_04 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_05 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_06 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_07 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_08 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_09 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_1 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_10 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_11 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_12 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_13 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_14 All All All
Application Sun Sdk 1.4.2_15 All All All
Application Sun Sdk All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

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