CVE-2010-4476
MEDIUMEPSS 97th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://blog.fortify.com/blog/2011/02/08/Double-Trouble
- http://blogs.oracle.com/security/2011/02/security_alert_for_cve-2010-44.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053926.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053934.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00010.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=129899347607632&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=129960314701922&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130168502603566&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130270785502599&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497132406206&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497185606818&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130514352726432&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=131041767210772&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132215163318824&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469267822771&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133728004526190&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254866602253&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254957702612&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136485229118404&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43280
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43295
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43304
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43333
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43378
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43400
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43659
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44954
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45022
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45555
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49198
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5098550.html
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ94423
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM31983
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21468358
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2161
- http://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-2250738585072012e-308/
- http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/HS11-003/index.html
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24029497
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24029498
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:054
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2010-4476-305811.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2011-301950.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2011-304611.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0210.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0211.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0212.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0213.html
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