7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.668 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.9%
Integer signedness error in Java SE Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 17 and earlier, and 6 Update 12 and earlier,
allows remote attackers to access files or execute arbitrary code via
crafted glyph descriptions in a Type1 font, which bypasses a signed
comparison and triggers a buffer overflow.
Author | Note |
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kees | RedHat lists this as “OpenJDK: Type1 font processing buffer overflow vulnerability” and bug 492302. Sun’s bug seems to be 6804999, from http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-254571-1 |