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  2. USN-976-1

USN-976-1: Tomcat vulnerability

Publication date

25 August 2010

Overview

Releases

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Details

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled invalid Transfer-Encoding
headers. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests containing
invalid headers to the server and cause a denial of service, or possibly
obtain sensitive information from other requests.

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled invalid Transfer-Encoding
headers. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests containing
invalid headers to the server and cause a denial of service, or possibly
obtain sensitive information from other requests.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
9.10 karmic libtomcat6-java –  6.0.20-2ubuntu2.2
9.04 jaunty libtomcat6-java –  6.0.18-0ubuntu6.3
10.04 lucid libtomcat6-java –  6.0.24-2ubuntu1.3

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