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CVE-2006-2426

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-05-17 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: 1.5.0-update6
• Sun Jre: 1.5.0-update6
• Sun Sdk: 1.5.0_6

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/20132
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20457
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34489
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34495
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34496
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34632
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34675
• 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

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