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GHSA-334p-wv2m-w3vp

Denial of service in Apache Xerces2

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2009-2625

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven xerces:xercesImpl < 2.10.0 2.10.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

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