CVE-2005-3583

HIGH 7.8CVE-2005-3583 · Published 16/11/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3583 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting jre (sun), sdk (sun).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 86.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
jre sun	`= 1.4.2`	No fix yet
sdk sun	`= 1.4.2_08= 1.4.2_09= 1.5.0_05`	No fix yet

Description

(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.

References

marc.info
secunia.com/advisories/17478 · Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com/securityalert/143
securityfocus.com/bid/15312

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

jre

sun

= 1.4.2

No fix yet

sdk

sun

= 1.4.2_08= 1.4.2_09= 1.5.0_05

No fix yet

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