Resource Exhaustion Affecting tomcat-webapps package, versions <0:7.0.54-2.el7_1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
94.8% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATWEBAPPS-4526024
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed9 Feb 2015

Introduced: 9 Feb 2015

CVE-2014-0227  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat-webapps to version 0:7.0.54-2.el7_1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:0983.

NVD Description

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

java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.42, 7.x before 7.0.55, and 8.x before 8.0.9 does not properly handle attempts to continue reading data after an error has occurred, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by streaming data with malformed chunked transfer coding.

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CVSS Scores

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