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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
1 year ago
Modified
Modified
1 year 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.