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CVE-2008-3440

CVE-2008-3440

EPSS 2.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.htmlhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1020584http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdfhttp://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz