CVE-2005-3583: Sun JRE

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

(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.

Affected products

• Sun JRE: version 1.4.2 only
• Sun SDK: version 1.4.2_08 only; version 1.4.2_09 only; version 1.5.0_05 only

Published 2005-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.