CVE-2010-4476 Apache Tomcat affected by infinite loop in Double.parseDouble method in Java Runtime Environment

What is CVE-2010-4476?

CVE-2010-4476 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

The Double.parseDouble method in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.2_29 and earlier, as used in OpenJDK, Apache, JBossweb, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted string that triggers an infinite loop of estimations during conversion to a double-precision binary floating-point number, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072012e-308.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4476?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.tomcat:tomcat. It affects 3 products.

Products include Sun Jdk, Sun Jre, Sun Sdk.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4476?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat to a fixed version for your release line: 5.5.33, 6.0.32 or 7.0.7.

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-2010-4476 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-4476 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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
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Also known as DSA-2161-1, DSA-2161-2, GHSA-gvgc-rxmh-5hvw, RHSA-2011:0210, RHSA-2011:0211, RHSA-2011:0214 and 6 more.