CVE-2010-4470 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4470?

CVE-2010-4470 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Jdk, published on 17 Feb 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23, and, and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to JAXP and unspecified APIs. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the February 2011 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor that this issue is related to "Features set on SchemaFactory not inherited by Validator."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4470?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sun Jdk, Sun Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4470?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2010-4470 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4470 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

All Sun Jdk vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rgfv-57h2-99r6.