Learn how to identify, debug, and optimize the cause of stack overflow errors in Java, which occur when your program exceeds the stack memory limit.

gson before v2.10.1 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the List parameter. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted string.

The Java Tutorial points out that Errors are typically external to the Java application and thus normally cannot and should not be caught or handled by the application.