A flaw was found in the way the RTFReader class implementation in the Swing component of OpenJDK handled style keyword parameters. A specially crafted Rich Text Format (RTF) file could cause a Java application using RTFReader to allocate an excessive ammount of memory and possibly terminate on out-of-memory condition.

A flaw was found in the way the RTFParser class implementation in the Swing component of OpenJDK handled memory allocations. A specially crafted Rich Text Format (RTF) file could cause a Java application using RTFParser to allocate an excessive amount of memory and possibly terminate on out-of-memory condition.