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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-3027-1 Critical: Tomcat Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2016
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The Apache Tomcat server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is vulnerable to a security flaw that may result in denial of service attacks due to specially crafted network requests.
Tomcat could be made to hang if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Tomcat could be made to hang if it received specially crafted network

traffic.

Software Description:

- tomcat8: Servlet and JSP engine

Details:

It was discovered that the Tomcat Fileupload library incorrectly handled

certain upload requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to

cause a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu tomcat

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  tomcat8                         8.0.32-1ubuntu1.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3027-1

CVE-2016-3092

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July 06, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu tomcat

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat8/8.0.32-1ubuntu1.1

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