Bug 1019139 (CVE-2013-5825)

Summary: CVE-2013-5825 OpenJDK: XML parsing Denial of Service (JAXP, 8014530)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Stefan Cornelius <scorneli>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dbhole, jkurik, jvanek, rkennke, security-response-team
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Fixed In Version: icedtea 2.4.3, icedtea 1.11.14, icedtea 1.12.7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Stefan Cornelius 2013-10-15 08:24:30 UTC
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the JRE processes XML. A remote attacker could use this flaw to supply crafted XML that would lead to a denial of service.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2013-10-15 19:18:16 UTC
This issue is mentioned in the "New Features and Changes" section of the Oracle JDK 7u45 release notes:

  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u45-relnotes-2016950.html#newft

  JAXP Changes

  Starting from JDK 7u45, the following new processing limits are added to
  the JAXP FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING feature.

    totalEntitySizeLimit
    maxGeneralEntitySizeLimit
    maxParameterEntitySizeLimit

  For more information, see the new Processing Limits lesson in the JAXP
  Tutorial.

More details on the new limits in the mentioned JAXP tutorial:

  http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jaxp/limits/index.html

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2013-10-16 10:47:01 UTC
Fixed in Oracle Java SE 7u45 and 6u65.

OpenJDK upstream commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jaxp/rev/7b1609dc89e7

and a follow up fix:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jaxp/rev/ae46ee9bbea0

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2013-10-16 11:20:49 UTC
External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-17 17:42:24 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1440 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1440.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-21 17:47:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1447 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1447.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-22 17:24:13 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1451 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1451.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-05 18:08:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1505 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1505.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-07 16:59:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1509 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1509.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-07 17:06:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1508 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1508.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-07 17:13:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1507 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1507.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-05 17:44:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4
  Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5
  Red Hat Satellite Server v 5.6

Via RHSA-2013:1793 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1793.html

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2014-04-17 11:38:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0414 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0414.html