| VID |
22492 |
| Severity |
30 |
| Port |
80, ... |
| Protocol |
TCP |
| Class |
WWW |
| Detailed Description |
According to its self-reported version number, the remote Apache Tomcat service is vulnerable to information disclosure or a denial of service attack due to a mishandling of invalid values for the 'Transfer-Encoding' HTTP header as sent by a client.
* Note: This check solely relied on the version number of the remote Web server to assess this vulnerability, so this might be a false positive.
* References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_5.5.30
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_6.0.28
* Platforms Affected:
Apache Tomcat versions prior to 5.5.30 / 6.0.28
Any operating system Any version |
| Recommendation |
Upgrade to the latest version of Apache Tomcat Server (5.5.30 / 6.0.28 or later), available from the Apache Software Foundation download site, http://tomcat.apache.org/ |
| Related URL |
CVE-2010-2227 (CVE) |
| Related URL |
41544 (SecurityFocus) |
| Related URL |
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