Bug 280611 (CVE-2009-2625)

Summary:	<dev-java/xerces-2.11.0: Codenomicon Malformed XML input DoS (CVE-2009-2625)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	java
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-06 22:45:08 UTC

CVE-2009-2625 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2625):
  Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in
  JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20,
  and in other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
  service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input,
  as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-06 22:48:55 UTC

patch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=787353

Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-06 22:54:23 UTC

Vendor Statements
Python: We are working on a fix.

Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-06 22:54:47 UTC

nevermind the last comment, thx

Comment 4 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-26 11:37:27 UTC

*xerces-2.11.0 (26 May 2012)

  26 May 2012; Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> +xerces-2.11.0.ebuild,
  +files/xerces-2.11.0-build.xml.patch:
  Security bump. #280611
  Don't let taskdef point to non-existent jar. #351394

Comment 5 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-27 22:33:27 UTC

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=dev-java/xerces-2.11.0
Target keywords : "amd64 ppc ppc64 x86"

Comment 6 Michael Harrison 2012-05-28 10:33:48 UTC

The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
=dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.4.01

amd64 ok

Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-05-28 12:23:09 UTC

amd64 stable

Comment 8 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-28 14:33:09 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 9 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-29 15:25:52 UTC

ppc64 done

Comment 10 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-14 01:30:12 UTC

ppc stable, last arch done.

Comment 11 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-15 11:56:41 UTC

Thanks, everyone. 

GLSA vote: no.

Comment 12 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-16 23:01:17 UTC

GLSA Vote: no, too. Closing noglsa.