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Debian: DSA-3614-1 Critical: Tomcat7 Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2016
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3615-1 informs about a vulnerability in OpenSSL leading to potential data exposure. Immediate updates advised.
The TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload, a package to make it easy to add robust, high-performance, file...
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Summary

Apache Tomcat uses a package renamed copy of Apache Commons FileUpload
to implement the file upload requirements of the Servlet specification
and is therefore also vulnerable to the denial of service vulnerability.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.0.56-3+deb8u3.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 7.0.70-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.0.70-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: tomcat7
CVE ID: CVE-2016-3092

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