Integer overflow in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2014-0075

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Integer overflow in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2014-0075

Published: June 21, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU64548
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0075
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the parseChunkHeader function in java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a malformed chunk size in chunked transfer coding of a request during the streaming of data.


Affected software

Apache Tomcat
OpenVMS CSWS_Java
FlashSystem V840 9846-AE1 & 9848-AE1
FlashSystem 840 9840-AE1 & 9843-AE1
HP-UX Web Server Suite
FlashSystem V840 9846-AC0 & -AC1 and 9848-AC0 & -AC1
Fedora
tomcat
IBM SAN Volume Controller
IBM Storwize V7000
IBM Storwize V5000
IBM Storwize V3700
IBM Storwize V3500

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0075

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Tomcat - addressed in versions 6.0.40, 7.0.53, 8.0.4
FlashSystem V840 9846-AE1 & 9848-AE1 - update to 1.1.3.2
FlashSystem 840 9840-AE1 & 9843-AE1 - update to 1.1.3.2
HP-UX Web Server Suite - update to 4.02
tomcat - update to 7.0.59-1.fc21
IBM SAN Volume Controller - addressed in versions 7.2.0.8, 7.3.0.5
IBM Storwize V7000 - addressed in versions 7.2.0.8, 7.3.0.5
IBM Storwize V5000 - addressed in versions 7.2.0.8, 7.3.0.5
IBM Storwize V3700 - addressed in versions 7.2.0.8, 7.3.0.5
IBM Storwize V3500 - addressed in versions 7.2.0.8, 7.3.0.5
FlashSystem V840 9846-AC0 & -AC1 and 9848-AC0 & -AC1 - update to 7.3.0.8

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