CVE
- Id
- 33557
- CVE No.
- CVE-2008-3440
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- 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.
- Phase
- Assigned (20080801)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments