National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3877

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 HTTP headers, which are not properly parsed by the ASN.1 DER input stream parser, aka Bug Id 6864911.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-3131

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 270476

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

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

Type: Advisory

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