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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Sun JRE and JDK (Programming Language Software). This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:
Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22, JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_27, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted HTTP headers, which are not properly parsed by the ASN.1 DER input stream parser, aka Bug Id 6864911.
The weakness was disclosed 11/05/2009 by Peter Vreugdenhil (regenrecht) with iDEFENSE (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-3877. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
A public exploit has been developed in Java. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67075 (CentOS 5 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (CESA-2009:1584)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 185067 (HP-UX Running Java, Multiple Vulnerabilities (HPSBUX02503)).
Upgrading to version 1.5.0 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (67075). The entries 4206, 51518, 50752 and 50750 are pretty similar.
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Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 67075
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (CESA-2009:1584)
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OpenVAS ID: 66262
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-11486 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)
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Sources
Vendor: oracle.comAdvisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Peter Vreugdenhil (regenrecht)
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2009-3877 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 23994 - Sun Java SE in JDK, JRE and SDK Vulnerability Allows Remote DoS via Crafted HTTP Headers, High
SecurityFocus: 36881 - Sun Java SE November 2009 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 08/27/2021 08:47
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (62), 02/16/2017 10:22 (14), 08/27/2021 08:44 (4), 08/27/2021 08:47 (1)
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