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CVE-2008-3108: Sun JRE: Privilege escalation

CVE-2008-3108 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Sun JRE. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Buffer overflow in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 10, SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18, and SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_23 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to font processing.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Underlying weakness

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected products

Sun JRE: 1.3.1; 1.3.1_2; 1.3.1_03; 1.3.1_04; 1.3.1_05; 1.3.1_06; 1.3.1_07; 1.3.1_08; 1.3.1_09; 1.3.1_10; 1.3.1_11; 1.3.1_12
Sun JDK: 1.5.0; 1.5.0 update1; 1.5.0 update10; 1.5.0 update2; 1.5.0 update3; 1.5.0 update4; 1.5.0 update5; 1.5.0 update6; 1.5.0 update7; 1.5.0 update7_b03; 1.5.0 update8; 1.5.0 update9
Sun Sdk: 1.3.1; 1.3.1_01; 1.3.1_01a; 1.3.1_02; 1.3.1_03; 1.3.1_04; 1.3.1_05; 1.3.1_06; 1.3.1_07; 1.3.1_08; 1.3.1_09; 1.3.1_10