A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat allows an attacker to remotely trigger a denial of service. An error introduced as part of a change to improve error handling during non-blocking I/O meant that the error flag associated with the Request object was not reset between requests. This meant that once a non-blocking I/O error occurred, all future requests handled by that request object would fail. Users were able to trigger non-blocking I/O errors, e.g. by dropping a connection, thereby creating the possibility of triggering a DoS. Applications that do not use non-blocking I/O are not exposed to this vulnerability. This issue affects Apache Tomcat 10.0.3 to 10.0.4; 9.0.44; 8.5.64.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Tomcat | — | Upgrade Apache Tomcat to 8.5.65Upgrade Apache Tomcat to 10.0.5Upgrade Apache Tomcat to the latest available versionUpgrade Apache Tomcat to 9.0.45 | Jul 13, 2021 | Jul 12, 2021 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade tomcat9Upgrade tomcat10Upgrade tomcat85 | Nov 4, 2022 | Aug 1, 2021 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade www-servers/tomcat. | Aug 22, 2022 | Jul 12, 2021 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Jul 12, 2021 |
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