CVE-2009-2625

Severity

6.5

Description

XMLScanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, and in other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Mitigation

We recommend upgrading to a version of this component that is not vulnerable to this specific issue.

Related links:

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2625

http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512921

Project

Category

n/a

Tags

data

Date Disclosed

2009-08-06

Date Discovered

2009-07-28

Apache TomEE 1.5.x

First release:

2012-09-28

0

Support Lifecycle:

Namespace:

javax

1.5.0 1.5.1 1.5.2

Apache TomEE 1.0.x

First release:

2012-04-27

0

Support Lifecycle:

Namespace:

javax

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