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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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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 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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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 |