CVE-2009-3729

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the TrueType font parsing functionality in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain test suite, aka Bug Id 6815780.

Affected products

Sun Jre: through 1.5.0; through 1.6.0; 1.5.0-update_1, 1.5.0-update_11, 1.5.0-update_12, 1.5.0-update_13, 1.5.0-update_14, 1.5.0-update_15 (+29)

References

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532904
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7537
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532904
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7537

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