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CVE-2016-3425

Public on 2016-04-21
Modified on 2016-05-11
Description

It was discovered that the JAXP component in OpenJDK failed to properly handle Unicode surrogate pairs used as part of the XML attribute values. Specially crafted XML input could cause a Java application to use an excessive amount of memory when parsed.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2016-05-11 11:00 ALAS-2016-700
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2016-04-27 16:15 ALAS-2016-693
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-04-21 16:00 ALAS-2016-688

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L