CVE-2008-3108

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

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 (+6)
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 (+47)
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 (+43)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
http://secunia.com/advisories/31320
http://secunia.com/advisories/31497
http://secunia.com/advisories/31600
http://secunia.com/advisories/31736
http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
http://secunia.com/advisories/32179

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