CVE-2006-2426 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2426
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26493 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/909 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20132 Secunia Advisory: SA20457 OSVDB 25561 MISC http://www.illegalaccess.org/exploit/FullDiskApplet.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/434001/100/0/threaded BID 17981

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