National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3876

Overview

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 DER encoded data, which is not properly decoded by the ASN.1 DER input stream parser, aka Bug Id 6864911.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 270476

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-270476-1

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-3131

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3131

External Source: BID

Name: 36881

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36881

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 37231

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/37231

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html

Hyperlink:http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html