What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-4476

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-02-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: through 1.6.0; through 1.5.0; 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_12, 1.6.0-update_13, 1.6.0-update_14 (+43)
• Sun Jre: through 1.6.0; through 1.5.0; through 1.4.2_29; 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_1, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_12, 1.6.0-update_13 (+71)
• Sun Sdk: through 1.4.2_29; 1.4.2, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_3, 1.4.2_4, 1.4.2_5 (+23)

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

Get alerted when CVE-2010-4476 or the next vulnerability affects your stack