CVE-2008-3440

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 1, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Aug 1, 2008

Description

Sun Java 1.6.0_03 and earlier versions, and possibly later versions, does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz
1020584vdb-entry
20080728 Tool release: [evilgrade] - Using DNS cache poisoning to exploit poor update implementationsmailing-list

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