CVE-2010-4476

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.

Bugs

• <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100119&gt;
• <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/716689&gt;