CVE-2012-0881
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.5
Description
Denial of service in Apache Xerces2
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Affected | — |
| forky | Affected | — |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | xerces:xercesImpl | <2.12.0 | 2.12.0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | xerces2_java | {"endIncluding":"2.11.0"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/11
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787104
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1685
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49dc6702104a86ecbb40292dcd329ce9ae4c32b74733199ecab14a73%40%3Cj-users.xerces.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rea7b831dceeb2a2fa817be6f63b08722042e3647fb2d47c144370a56%40%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0881
- https://github.com/apache/xerces2-j/commit/992b5d9c24102ad20330d36c0a71162753a37449
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/11
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rea7b831dceeb2a2fa817be6f63b08722042e3647fb2d47c144370a56@%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc@%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49dc6702104a86ecbb40292dcd329ce9ae4c32b74733199ecab14a73@%3Cj-users.xerces.apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0881
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.