CVE-2011-3387 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2011-3387?

CVE-2011-3387 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Sep 2011. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The class file parser in IBM Java 1.4.2 SR13 FP9 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or an infinite loop) via a crafted attribute length field in a class file, related to validation of a length field at the wrong time, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0311.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3387?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Java.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3387?

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-2011-3387 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3387 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-0485 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2015-0192 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-5456 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2013-5457 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2013-5458 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-c76f-h47x-j5r2.