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CVE-2009-2625

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 30.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Apache Xerces2 Java: 2.9.1
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
• Debian Linux: 4.0, 5.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 10, 11
• Opensuse: 11.0, 11.1, 11.2
• Oracle Java SE: 1.5.0, 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update10, 1.5.0-update11, 1.5.0-update12, 1.5.0-update13 (+27)
• Oracle Corporation Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management: 6.1, 6.2.1, 7.0
• Oracle Primavera Web Services: 6.2.1, 7.0, 7.0-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 9, 10-sp2, 10-sp3, 11

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125787273209737&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1232.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1537.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36162
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36176
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36180
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36199

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