CVE-2006-2426 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-2426

Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5.0_6 and earlier, JDK 1.5.0_6...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

jdk, jre, sdk
Vulnerable Versions:
1.5.0, 1.5.0_6

Timeline

Official Publish: May 17th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.