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CVE-2016-0466

Public on 2016-01-21
Modified on 2016-02-19
Description

It was discovered that the JAXP component in OpenJDK did not properly enforce the totalEntitySizeLimit limit. An attacker able to make a Java application process a specially crafted XML file could use this flaw to make the application consume an excessive amount of memory.

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 2016-02-19 15:48 ALAS-2016-654
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2016-02-09 13:30 ALAS-2016-643
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-02-09 13:30 ALAS-2016-647

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 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P