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CentOS Update for tomcat5 CESA-2011:0336 centos5 i386
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'tomcat5' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. A denial of service flaw was found in the way certain strings were converted to Double objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Tomcat to hang via a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2010-4476) Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.
Affected Software
Affected Software
tomcat5 on CentOS 5
Solution
Solution
Please install the updated packages.