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Apache Tomcat: Moderate: Denial of Service (CVE-2016-3092)

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Apache Tomcat: Moderate: Denial of Service (CVE-2016-3092)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/23/2016
Modified
06/18/2019

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)

  • apache-tomcat-upgrade-7_0_70
  • apache-tomcat-upgrade-8_0_36

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