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CVE-2013-4002

Public on 2013-07-23
Modified on 2014-11-01
Description

A resource consumption issue was found in the way Xerces-J handled XML declarations. A remote attacker could use an XML document with a specially crafted declaration using a long pseudo-attribute name that, when parsed by an application using Xerces-J, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2013-11-05 13:35 ALAS-2013-246
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2013-10-23 15:22 ALAS-2013-235
Amazon Linux 1 xerces-j2 2014-10-28 17:13 ALAS-2014-436

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C