CVE-2008-5349

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier, and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted RSA public key.

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_14 (+12)
Sun Jre: through 5.0; through 6; 5.0, 5.0-update_1, 5.0-update_10, 5.0-update_11, 5.0-update_12, 5.0-update_13 (+12)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01745133
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/50504
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1018.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1025.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32991
http://secunia.com/advisories/33015
http://secunia.com/advisories/33709
http://secunia.com/advisories/34259
http://secunia.com/advisories/34972

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