CVE-2010-4476: Sun JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 23.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.6.0 only; up to and including 1.5.0; version 1.5.0 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.6.0 only; up to and including 1.5.0; version 1.5.0 only; up to and including 1.4.2_29; version 1.4.2 only; …
• Sun SDK: up to and including 1.4.2_29; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; version 1.4.2_4 only; …

Published 2011-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.