CVE-2009-3884

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The TimeZone.getTimeZone method in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of local files via vectors related to handling of zoneinfo (aka tz) files, aka Bug Id 6824265.

Affected products

Sun Jre: through 1.5.0; through 1.6.0; 1.5.0-update_1, 1.5.0-update_11, 1.5.0-update_12, 1.5.0-update_13, 1.5.0-update_14, 1.5.0-update_15 (+29)
Sun Openjdk: all versions

References

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Dec/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Dec/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://secunia.com/advisories/37581
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3969
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3970
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530300
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11686

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