CVE-2008-5358 describes a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted GIF file, potentially during the display of a splash screen. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but granting complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Despite its age and high severity, there is no public exploit code available, nor is it listed on the KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:*:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:6:update_3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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