CVE-2009-2625 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-2625

XMLScanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

jdk, fedora, opensuse, linux enterprise server, debian linux, ubuntu linux, primavera p6 enterprise project portfolio management, primavera web services, xerces2 java
Vulnerable Versions:
1.5.0, 1.6.0, 10, 11, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 9, 4.0, 5.0, 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 6.1, 6.2.1, 7.0, 2.9.1

Timeline

Official Publish: August 6th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.