CORRECTION: This is CVE-2014-0099 *NOT* -0097
Apologies for the typo
On 27/05/2014 13:46, Mark Thomas wrote:
> CVE-2014-0099 Information Disclosure
>
> Severity: Important
>
> Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
>
> Versions Affected:
> - Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 to 8.0.3
> - Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.52
> - Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.39
>
> Description:
> The code used to parse the request content length header did not check
> for overflow in the result. This exposed a request smuggling
> vulnerability when Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that
> correctly processed the content length header.
>
> Mitigation:
> Users of affected versions should apply one of the following mitigations
> - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.0.5 or later
> (8.0.4 contains the fix but was not released)
> - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 7.0.53 or later
> - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 6.0.41 or later
> (6.0.40 contains the fix but was not released)
>
> Credit:
> A test case that demonstrated the parsing bug was sent to the Tomcat
> security team but no context was provided. The security implications
> were identified by the Tomcat security team .
>
> References:
> [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html
> [2] http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
> [3] http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
>
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