CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4476

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-02-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-02-17
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

The Double.parseDouble method in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.2_29 and earlier, as used in OpenJDK, Apache, JBossweb, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted string that triggers an infinite loop of estimations during conversion to a double-precision binary floating-point number, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072012e-308.

Affected configurations

• sun jre (<= 1.6.0) • sun jre 1.6.0 • sun jdk (<= 1.6.0) • sun jdk 1.6.0 • sun jdk (<= 1.5.0) • sun jdk 1.5.0 • sun sdk (<= 1.4.2 29) • sun sdk 1.4.2 • sun sdk 1.4.2 1 • sun sdk 1.4.2 02 • sun sdk 1.4.2 3 • sun sdk 1.4.2 4 • sun sdk 1.4.2 5 • sun sdk 1.4.2 6 • sun sdk 1.4.2 7 • sun sdk 1.4.2 8 • sun sdk 1.4.2 9 • sun sdk 1.4.2 10 • sun sdk 1.4.2 11 • sun sdk 1.4.2 12 • sun sdk 1.4.2 13 • sun sdk 1.4.2 14 • sun sdk 1.4.2 15 • sun sdk 1.4.2 16 • sun sdk 1.4.2 17 • sun sdk 1.4.2 18 • sun sdk 1.4.2 19 • sun sdk 1.4.2 20 • sun sdk 1.4.2 21 • sun sdk 1.4.2 22 • sun sdk 1.4.2 23 • sun sdk 1.4.2 24 • sun sdk 1.4.2 25 • sun sdk 1.4.2 26 • sun sdk 1.4.2 27 • sun sdk 1.4.2 28 • sun jre (<= 1.5.0) • sun jre 1.5.0 • sun jre (<= 1.4.2 29) • sun jre 1.4.2 • sun jre 1.4.2 1 • sun jre 1.4.2 2 • sun jre 1.4.2 3 • sun jre 1.4.2 4 • sun jre 1.4.2 5 • sun jre 1.4.2 6 • sun jre 1.4.2 7 • sun jre 1.4.2 8 • sun jre 1.4.2 9 • sun jre 1.4.2 10 • sun jre 1.4.2 11 • sun jre 1.4.2 12 • sun jre 1.4.2 13 • sun jre 1.4.2 14 • sun jre 1.4.2 15 • sun jre 1.4.2 16 • sun jre 1.4.2 17 • sun jre 1.4.2 18 • sun jre 1.4.2 19 • sun jre 1.4.2 20 … and 8 more

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References