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JRE Temporary Font Files Denial of Service

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JRE Temporary Font Files Denial of Service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/25/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/18/2009
Modified
09/13/2018

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in Java SE Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 17 and earlier, 6 Update 12 and earlier as well as 1.4.2_19 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via vectors related to temporary font files and limits on Font creation.

Solution(s)

  • jre-upgrade-latest

References

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