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

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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
07/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/22/2016
Modified
10/14/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade--tomcat8
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat7

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