SUN » SDK : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, Published In 2005

(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.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Java Archive Tool (Jar) utility in J2SE SDK 1.4.2 and 1.5, and OpenJDK, allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in filenames in a .jar file.

The Software Development Kit (SDK) and Run Time Environment (RTE) 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 for Tru64 UNIX allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Java Virtual Machine hang) via object deserialization.