Improper Input Validation Affecting tomcat-lib package, versions <0:7.0.42-6.el7_0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.39% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATLIB-4464920
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 May 2014

Introduced: 27 May 2014

CVE-2014-0075  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-lib to version 0:7.0.42-6.el7_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:0827.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-lib package and not the tomcat-lib package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer overflow in the parseChunkHeader function in java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a malformed chunk size in chunked transfer coding of a request during the streaming of data.

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