Bug 1273645 (CVE-2015-4911)

Summary: CVE-2015-4911 OpenJDK: incomplete supportDTD enforcement (JAXP, 8130078)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bbaranow, bmaxwell, btotty, cdewolf, csutherl, dandread, darran.lofthouse, dbhole, jason.greene, jawilson, jboss-set, jshepherd, jvanek, lgao, myarboro, pgier, psakar, pslavice, rsvoboda, sbaiduzh, security-response-team, twalsh, vtunka
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Bug Depends On: 1278650, 1278653, 1298015    
Bug Blocks: 1257667, 1278635    

Description Tomas Hoger 2015-10-20 20:55:25 UTC
It was discovered that the StAX XML parser in the JAXP component of OpenJDK could do certain DTD processing even when DTD support was disabled via the javax.xml.stream.supportDTD system property.  A specially crafted XML document could cause a Java application using JAXP to consume an excessive amount of memory and CPU time when parsed.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-10-21 08:55:54 UTC
Public now via Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2015.  Fixed in Oracle Java SE 6u105, 7u91, and 8u65.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html#AppendixJAVA

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-21 18:49:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:1921 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1921.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-21 21:00:13 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1920 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1920.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-21 21:10:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1919 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1919.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-22 18:36:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1928 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1928.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-22 18:37:06 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1926 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1926.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-22 18:46:51 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1927 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1927.html

Comment 8 Tomas Hoger 2015-10-26 14:38:48 UTC
OpenJDK8 upstream commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jaxp/rev/f98b8f06a46a

Comment 10 Jason Shepherd 2015-11-06 05:46:20 UTC
While this issue affects the JAXP libraries used by EAP, it's possible to
override them with the patched ones from the JDK using the instructions
in this article:

   https://access.redhat.com/solutions/874723

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-18 16:42:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2086 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2086.html

Comment 16 Jason Shepherd 2016-01-14 04:22:06 UTC
Closed the EAP trackers as won't fix because the issue was ranked as moderate and there is a workaround. The workaround is to use your own JAXP libraries by packaging them with your application.

   https://access.redhat.com/solutions/874723