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CVE-2009-1100

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Java SE Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 17 and earlier, and 6 Update 12 and earlier, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via vectors related to temporary font files and (1) "limits on Font creation," aka CR 6522586, and (2) another unspecified vector, aka CR 6632886.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: through 1.5.0; through 1.6.0; 1.5.0, 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update11_b03, 1.5.0-update12 (+24)
• Sun Jre: through 1.5.0; through 1.6.0; 1.5.0, 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update12, 1.5.0-update13 (+21)

References

• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01745133
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124344236532162&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34489
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34495
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34496
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35156
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35223
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35255

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