Input validation error in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2012-3544
Published: June 20, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU64510
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-3544
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack by streaming data.
Affected software
Apache Tomcat
How to mitigate CVE-2012-3544
Install updates from vendor's website.
Apache Tomcat - addressed in versions 6.0.37, 7.0.30
External References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0042.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java?r1=1476592&r2=1476591&pathrev=1476592
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378702
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378921
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1476592
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59797
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64758
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1841-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html