CVE-2008-5349 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5349?

CVE-2008-5349 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Jdk, published on 5 Dec 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5349?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Jdk, Sun Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5349?

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-2008-5349 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5349 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-xh8j-pqxf-hqm9.