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NUM05-J

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L3

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-4476 (CVE 2008 ) reports a vulnerability in the Double.parseDouble() method in Java 1.6 update 23 and earlier, Java 1.5 update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.2_29 and earlier. This vulnerability causes a denial of service when this method is fed a certain crafted string. The value 2.2250738585072012e-308 is close to the minimum normalized positive double-precision floating-point number, and when encoded as a string, it triggers an infinite loop of estimations during conversion to a normalized or denormalized double.

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