CVE-2008-1194 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-1194?

CVE-2008-1194 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Jdk, published on 6 Mar 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the color management library in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1194?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Jdk, Sun Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2008-1194?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-1194 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1194 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Sun Jdk

• CVE-2011-3521 Deserialization in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3548 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3549 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3554 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-0802 Other in n/a Critical 10.0

All Sun Jdk vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-9778-59qc-w9g9.