cve/2008/CVE-2008-3112.md

### [CVE-2008-3112](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3112)
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### Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 7, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via the writeManifest method in the CacheEntry class, aka CR 6703909.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0790.html
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html

#### Github
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