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Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability (Mar 2015) - Linux

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Web Servers

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Apache Tomcat is prone to denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw is due to ChunkedInputFilter implementation in Apache Tomcat did not fail subsequent attempts to read input after a failure occurred.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.42, 7.x before 7.0.55, and 8.x before 8.0.9.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 6.0.42, 7.0.55, 8.0.9 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)