CVE-2008-5357: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier; JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 16 and earlier; SDK and JRE 1.4.2_18 and earlier; and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_23 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType font file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.1_2 only; version 1.3.1_03 only; version 1.3.1_04 only; version 1.3.1_05 only; version 1.3.1_06 only; …
• Sun SDK: version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.1_01 only; version 1.3.1_01a only; version 1.3.1_02 only; version 1.3.1_03 only; version 1.3.1_04 only; …

Published 2008-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.