The font routines of the current Java Virtual machine can be misused to fill up the free disk space of the current user with a large tmp file which cannot not be deleted before the browser is closed. Other applications are affected due to missing disk space.
According to Chok.Poh@Sun it will be fixed in 2008.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Extras for RHEL 4 Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2009:0392 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0392.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Extras for RHEL 4 Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2009:0394 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0394.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2009:0377 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0377.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.1 Via RHSA-2009:1662 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1662.html