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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2008-1194 json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the color management library in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 4 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 14 and earli…

published 2008-03-06 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1203

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • java-1.5.0-ibm network satellite 5.1 1:1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el4
  • java-1.5.0-bea RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-jdbc RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.5.0-bea-missioncontrol RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS 1:1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0638RHSA-2008:0244RHSA-2008:0267RHSA-2008:0210RHSA-2008:0245RHSA-2008:0186

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-1194 updated

JRE image parsing library allows privilege escalation (CVE-2008-1194)

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-bea 1.6.0.03-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.1-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-bea 1.5.0.14-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.6.0-bea 1.6.0.03-1jpp.2.el5, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el5, +23 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-src 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc 1.5.0.7-1jpp.2.el4, java-1.5.0-sun-src 1.5.0.15-1jpp.2.el4, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0210
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.1 (RHEL v.4 AS) java-1.5.0-ibm 1.5.0.8-1jpp.1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0638

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Exploit prediction

4.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.