CVE-2008-3440 (GCVE-0-2008-3440)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-08-01 14:00
Modified
2024-08-07 09:37
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Sun Java 1.6.0_03 and earlier versions, and possibly later versions, does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.
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