Bug 1027825 (CVE-2013-5372)

Summary:	CVE-2013-5372 IBM JDK: XML4J xml entity expansion excessive memory use (XML)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dbhole, jkurik, jvanek
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Description Tomas Hoger 2013-11-07 12:37:02 UTC

An unspecified vulnerability in the XML component was fixed in IBM JDK 7 SR6, 6 SR15 and 5.0 SR16-FP4.  This issue got the following CVSSv2 score upstream: 4.3/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_November_2013
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/j732/Java7.fixes.html#SR6
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/j632/Java6.fixes.html#SR15
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/j532/fixes.html#SR16FP4

Additional details may become available under this X-Force database article:

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/86662

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2013-11-07 12:41:57 UTC

Some additional details are provided by the IBM WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus security bulletin:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21653087

  The XML4J parser (...) is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, triggered
  by a specially crafted XML document. The specially crafted XML document causes
  the XML parser to run out of memory when the security feature to control the
  processing of a document with a large number of entities that need to be
  expanded is enabled.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-07 17:01:55 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 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-07 17:08:38 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 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-07 17:16:15 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 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-05 17:46:27 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