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CVE Published
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CVE-2016-3508

First published: Fri Jul 15 2016(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert_us@oracle.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Oracle JDK=1.6.0-update115
Oracle JDK=1.7.0-update101
Oracle JDK=1.8.0-update91
Oracle JDK=1.8.0-update92
Oracle JRE=1.6.0-update115
Oracle JRE=1.7.0-update101
Oracle JRE=1.8.0-update91
Oracle JRE=1.8.0-update92
Oracle JRockit=r28.3.10
Oracle Linux=5.0
Oracle Linux=6
Oracle Linux=7

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