CVE-2006-2426

Untrusted applet causes DoS by filling up disk space

Published May 17, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 6.4 Medium EPSS 13.0% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1769-1 New openjdk-6 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-748-1 OpenJDK vulnerabilities
History

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 5:51 PM
Reserved
May 17, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 17, 2006, 10:06 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:24 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
May 14, 2006, 12:00 AM