CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2625

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-08-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2009-08-06
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• oracle jdk 1.5.0 • oracle jdk 1.6.0 • fedoraproject fedora 10 • fedoraproject fedora 11 • opensuse opensuse 11.0 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • opensuse opensuse 11.2 • suse linux enterprise server 9 • suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • debian debian linux 4.0 • debian debian linux 5.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.10 • oracle primavera p6 enterprise project portfolio management 6.1 • oracle primavera p6 enterprise project portfolio management 6.2.1 • oracle primavera p6 enterprise project portfolio management 7.0 • oracle primavera web services 6.2.1 • oracle primavera web services 7.0 • apache xerces2 java 2.9.1

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125787273209737&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1232.html Broken Link
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1537.html Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/36162 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36176 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36180 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36199 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37300 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37460 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37671 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37754 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38231 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38342 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/43300 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50549 Third Party Advisory
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.486026 Third Party Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-125136-16-1 Broken Link, Patch
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-263489-1 Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-272209-1 Broken Link
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021506.1-1 Broken Link
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/trunk/src/org/apache/xerces/impl/XMLScanner.java?r1=572055&r2=787352&pathrev=787353&diff_format=h Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/ Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1984 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:209 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:108 Third Party Advisory
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/080509-xml-flaw.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/06/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/22/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/26/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2010-084891.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2009-096303.html Broken Link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1615.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0858.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35958 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022680 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-890-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-294A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-012A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2543 Permissions Required
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 Permissions Required
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0359 Permissions Required
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512921 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8520 Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9356 Third Party Advisory
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1199.html Broken Link
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1200.html Broken Link
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1201.html Broken Link
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1636.html Broken Link
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1637.html Broken Link
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1649.html Broken Link
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1650.html Broken Link
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00310.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00325.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125787273209737&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1232.html Broken Link
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1537.html Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/36162 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36176 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36180 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36199 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37300 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37460 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37671 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37754 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38231 Third Party Advisory