USN-2302-1

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USN-2302-1

Summary: tomcat6, tomcat7 vulnerabilities

Details: David Jorm discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain requests submitted using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Tomcat server to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0075) It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets. An attacker could use this issue with a crafted web application to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files. (CVE-2014-0096) It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain Content-Length headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw in configurations where Tomcat is behind a reverse proxy to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2014-0099)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2302-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0075, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0096, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0099