Bug 1357015 (CVE-2016-3508) - CVE-2016-3508 OpenJDK: missing entity replacement limits (JAXP, 8149962)
Summary: CVE-2016-3508 OpenJDK: missing entity replacement limits (JAXP, 8149962)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-3508
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1350028
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Reported: 2016-07-15 13:33 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-26 15:15:23 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1458 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update 2016-07-20 16:11:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1475 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-oracle security update 2017-12-14 21:39:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1476 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.7.0-oracle security update 2017-12-14 22:54:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1477 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: java-1.6.0-sun security update 2017-12-14 20:16:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1504 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update 2016-09-16 11:11:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1776 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update 2016-08-26 16:59:28 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2016-07-15 13:33:55 UTC 
It was discovered that the JAXP component of OpenJDK did not place a limit on the number of entity replacements performed when parsing XML files. A specially crafted XML document could cause a Java application using JAXP to consume an excessive amount of memory and CPU time when parsed.

Updates correcting this issue address the problem by introducing a limit on the number of entity replacements that can be performed.  The limit can be controlled using the jdk.xml.entityReplacementLimit system property.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2016-07-20 07:44:50 UTC 
Public now via Oracle CPU July 2016, fixed in Oracle JDK 8u101, 7u111, and 6u121.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html#AppendixJAVA
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2016-07-20 09:40:56 UTC 
OpenJDK 8 upstream commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jaxp/rev/c678c1a31a55
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-07-20 12:13:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:1458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1458
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-07-21 10:20:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1477 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1477
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2016-07-21 10:21:01 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1476 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1476
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2016-07-21 10:22:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1475 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1475
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-07-27 11:43:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1504 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1504.html
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-26 13:00:17 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-2016:1776 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1776.html
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