Fwd: Extremely dangerous remote vulnerability

[Florian Weimer]

* Brian Gardner:

> Hello,
> My name is Brian Gardner and I'm the maintainer of openjdk6 on
> FreeBSD.  It looks like their is a severe vulnerability in openjdk 6,
> however I don't see a fix in mercurial yet.  Is there a patch I can
> apply to our port?

Sun says:

| A Security Vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) With
| Parsing XML Data May Allow a Remote Client to Create a Denial of
| Service (DoS) Condition

<http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-263489-1>

Is this really "extremely dangerous"?  I doubt it.

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