CVE-2009-2205: Apple Java 1.4

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Java Web Start command launcher in Java for Mac OS X 10.5 before Update 5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Java 1.4: up to and including 2; version 2 only
• Apple Java 1.5: up to and including 0
• Apple Java 1.6: up to and including 0; version 0 only
• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.5 only; version 10.5.0 only; version 10.5.1 only; version 10.5.2 only; version 10.5.3 only; version 10.5.4 only; …

Published 2009-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.