CVE-2009-1101

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the lightweight HTTP server implementation in Java SE Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 12 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (probably resource consumption) for a JAX-WS service endpoint via a connection without any data, which triggers a file descriptor "leak."

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 1.6.0; 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_3, 1.6.0-update_4, 1.6.0-update_5 (+5)
Sun Jre: through 1.6.0; 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_1, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_2, 1.6.0-update_3 (+4)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01745133
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124344236532162&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/34489
http://secunia.com/advisories/34496
http://secunia.com/advisories/34632
http://secunia.com/advisories/34675
http://secunia.com/advisories/35156
http://secunia.com/advisories/35223
http://secunia.com/advisories/35255

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