Bug 883637 (CVE-2012-4534) - CVE-2012-4534 Tomcat - Denial Of Service when using NIO+SSL+sendfile
Summary: CVE-2012-4534 Tomcat - Denial Of Service when using NIO+SSL+sendfile
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-4534
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 883690 883691 883692 883693 883694
Blocks: 883674
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-05 03:33 UTC by Arun Babu Neelicattu
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-07-03 06:57:33 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0265 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: tomcat6 security update 2013-02-20 01:29:31 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0266 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: tomcat6 security update 2013-02-20 03:12:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0623 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: tomcat6 security update 2013-03-11 23:31:54 UTC

Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2012-12-05 03:33:33 UTC 
When using the NIO connector with sendfile and HTTPS enabled, if a client breaks the connection while reading the response an infinite loop is entered leading to a denial of service.

Source: Tomcat security pages. [1,2]

[1] http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
[2] http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
Comment 3 David Jorm 2012-12-05 06:25:38 UTC 
Created tomcat6 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 883690]
Comment 4 David Jorm 2012-12-05 06:25:41 UTC 
Created tomcat tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-16 [bug 883691]
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-12-19 08:29:26 UTC 
tomcat-7.0.33-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-12-19 13:54:24 UTC 
Upstream bug report (including reproducer):
  https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52858
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-19 20:30:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2.0.0

Via RHSA-2013:0265 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0265.html
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-19 22:15:09 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  JBEWS 2 for RHEL 5
  JBEWS 2 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:0266 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0266.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-11 19:33:52 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0623 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0623.html
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