CVE-2009-2625

Name	CVE-2009-2625
Description	XMLScanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java, as used in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 15 and JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 20, and in other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and application hang) via malformed XML input, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1984-1
Debian Bugs	542210, 548358

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libxerces2-java (PTS)	buster	2.12.0-1	fixed
	bullseye	2.12.1-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2.12.2-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libxerces2-java	source	etch	2.8.1-1+etch1		DSA-1984-1
libxerces2-java	source	lenny	2.9.1-2+lenny1		DSA-1984-1
libxerces2-java	source	(unstable)	2.9.1-4.1			548358
openjdk-6	source	(unstable)	6b16-1.6-1	medium		542210
sun-java5	source	lenny	1.5.0-22-0lenny1
sun-java5	source	(unstable)	1.5.0-20-1
sun-java6	source	lenny	6-20-0lenny1
sun-java6	source	(unstable)	6-15-1

[etch] - sun-java5 <no-dsa> (Non-free not supported)