CVE-2005-0471

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Sun Java JRE 1.1.x through 1.4.x writes temporary files with long filenames that become predictable on a file system that uses 8.3 style short names, which allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files to known locations and facilitates the exploitation of vulnerabilities in applications that rely on unpredictable file names.

Sun Java JRE 1.1.x through 1.4.x writes temporary files with long filenames that become predictable on a file system that uses 8.3 style short names, which allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files to known locations and facilitates the exploitation of vulnerabilities in applications that rely on unpredictable file names.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Sun

First reported 19 years ago

2005-03-14 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

Sun JDK 1.1.0

1.1.0

Sun JDK 1.2.0

1.2.0

Sun JDK 1.3.0

1.3.0

Sun JDK 1.4.0

1.4.0

Sun JDK 1.5.0

1.5.0

Sun J2RE 1.3.0

1.3.0

Sun JRE 1.5.0

1.5.0

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