(1) Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and (2) Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.4.2_08, 1.4.2_09, and 1.5.0_05 and possibly other versions allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM unresponsive) via a crafted serialized object, such as a font object as demonstrated on JBoss.
Published 2005-11-16 · Modified