CVE-2006-2426

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 5
Modified
Published: 17 May 2006, 10:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 17:51

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
41/100
CVSS Score
6.4 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
29.36% HIGH
29% probability +1.47%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

17 May 2006, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 17:51
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5.0_6 and earlier, JDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier, and SDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by using the Font.createFont function to create temporary files of arbitrary size in the %temp% directory.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.4AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 29.36%• Percentile: 97%

Affected Systems

  • sun•jdk

    1.5.0:update6

  • sun•jre

    1.5.0:update6

  • sun•sdk

    1.5.0_6

References (25)