Vulnerability

CVE-2009-2625

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CVSS Score 5.0 medium

CVSS Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE

CWE-Other

References

http://www.codenomicon.com/labs/xml/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512921
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2625

[CVE-2009-2625] CWE-Other

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.

See xerces/xercesImpl package information