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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-3092: Security patch for tomcat7, tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-736)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 4, 2016
Added
Aug 22, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The MultipartStream class in Apache Commons Fileupload before 1.3.2, as used in Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.70, 8.x before 8.0.36, 8.5.x before 8.5.3, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M7 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long boundary string.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade--tomcat8amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7
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