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Tomcat servlet engine MS/DOS device names denial of service
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
It was possible to freeze or crash Windows or the web server by reading a thousand of times a MS/DOS device through Tomcat servlet engine, using a file name like /examples/servlet/AUX
Affected Software
Affected Software
Apache Tomcat 3.3 Apache Tomcat 4.0.4 All versions prior to 4.1.x may be affected as well. Apache Tomcat 4.1.10 (and probably higher) is not affected. Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows NT may be affected as well.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade your Apache Tomcat web server to version 4.1.10.