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CVE-2008-1188

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2008-03-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the useEncodingDecl function in Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JNLP file with (1) a long key name in the xml header or (2) a long charset value, different issues than CVE-2008-1189, aka "The first two issues."

Affected Platforms

Sun JreSun Jdk

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References