Vulnerability CVE-2006-2426
Published: 2006-05-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
JDK 1.4.2_11, 1.5.0_06, unsigned applets consuming all free harddisk space
Marc Schoenefeld
19.05.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
SUN -> JDK 
SUN -> JRE 
SUN -> SDK 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/909
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-108.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-109.htm
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1769
http://www.illegalaccess.org/exploit/FullDiskApplet.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:137
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:162
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0392.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0394.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434001/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17981
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-748-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1824
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26493
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10609
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0377.html
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