CVE-2009-1101 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2009-1101?

CVE-2009-1101 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Jdk, published on 25 Mar 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the lightweight HTTP server implementation in Java SE Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 12 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (probably resource consumption) for a JAX-WS service endpoint via a connection without any data, which triggers a file descriptor "leak."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1101?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Jdk, Sun Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2009-1101?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2009-1101 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1101 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Sun Jdk

• CVE-2011-3521 Deserialization in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3548 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3549 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3554 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-0802 Other in n/a Critical 10.0

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-84rr-q55c-9hm6.