CVE-2013-4002
HIGHEPSS 98th pctlDescription
XMLscanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java Parser before 2.12.0, as used in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in IBM Java 5.0 before 5.0 SR16-FP3, 6 before 6 SR14, 6.0.1 before 6.0.1 SR6, and 7 before 7 SR5 as well as Oracle Java SE 7u40 and earlier, Java SE 6u60 and earlier, Java SE 5.0u51 and earlier, JRockit R28.2.8 and earlier, JRockit R27.7.6 and earlier, Java SE Embedded 7u40 and earlier, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XML attribute names.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00023.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=138674031212883&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=138674073720143&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1059.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1060.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1081.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1440.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1447.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1451.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1505.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1818.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1821.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1822.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1823.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0773.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56257
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5982
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/trunk/src/org/apache/xerces/impl/XMLScanner.java?r1=965250&r2=1499506&view=patch
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC98015
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21644197
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21653371
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657539
- http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/HS13-025/index.html
- http://www.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/security_bulletin_ibm_filenet_content_manager_and_ibm_content_foundation_xml_4j_denial_of_service_attack_cve_2013_4002
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_July_2013
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648172
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61310
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2033-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2089-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85260
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1679
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49dc6702104a86ecbb40292dcd329ce9ae4c32b74733199ecab14a73%40%3Cj-users.xerces.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.html
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