CVE-2009-3729

Sun JRE < 1.5.0 and < 1.6.0 - Denial of Service in TrueType Font Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532904
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7537
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386

Scores

EPSS 0.0158
EPSS Percentile 81.8%

Details

Status published
Products (4)
sun/jre 1.5.0 update_1 (20 CPE variants)
sun/jre 1.6.0 update_1 (15 CPE variants)
sun/jre < 1.5.0
sun/jre < 1.6.0
Published Nov 09, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026