CVE-2012-3544
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Improper input validation
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.37 and 7.x before 7.0.30 does not properly handle chunk extensions in chunked transfer coding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by streaming data.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)11%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java?r1=1476592&r2=1476591&pathrev=1476592Patch
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378702Patch
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378921Patch
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1476592Patch
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.htmlAdvisory
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.htmlAdvisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0042.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23