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CVE-2008-1187

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Unspecified 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.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: through 5.0; through 6; 5.0-update_1, 5.0-update_10, 5.0-update_11, 5.0-update_12, 5.0-update_13, 5.0-update_2 (+11)
• Sun Jre: through 1.4.2_14; through 5.0; through 6; 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_04, 1.4.2_05 (+24)
• Sun Sdk: through 1.4.2_16; 1.4.2, 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_04 (+11)

References

• http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/277
• http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=q5exhSqeBjA~
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN04032535/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000016.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00010.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29239
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29273
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29498
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29582
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29841

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