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CVE-2014-0050

Public on 2014-03-24
Modified on 2014-09-18
Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Apache Commons FileUpload, which is embedded in Tomcat and JBoss Web, handled small-sized buffers used by MultipartStream. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create a malformed Content-Type header for a multipart request, causing Tomcat to enter an infinite loop when processing such an incoming request.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat6 2014-05-21 10:45 ALAS-2014-344
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat7 2014-03-24 23:36 ALAS-2014-312

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P