It was discovered that JBoss Web / Apache Tomcat did not limit the length of chunk sizes when using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack against JBoss Web / Apache Tomcat by streaming an unlimited quantity of data, leading to excessive consumption of server resources.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | tomcat7 | 2015-05-14 14:38 | ALAS-2015-526 |
Amazon Linux 1 | tomcat8 | 2015-05-14 14:40 | ALAS-2015-527 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |