CVE-2006-2426 EXPLOIT
6.4
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 12.7% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 6.4 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
| EPSS | 12.69% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2006-05-17 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| sun | jdk |
| sun | jre |
| sun | sdk |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Sun Java Applet - Font.createFont Remote Denial of Service | 2006-05-15 |
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
- 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.osvdb.org/25561
- 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
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