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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2012/12/08 01:38:30 UTC

[Bug 54263] New: CVE-2012-5568 Tomcat is vulnerable to Slowloris denial of service

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54263

            Bug ID: 54263
           Summary: CVE-2012-5568 Tomcat is vulnerable to Slowloris denial
                    of service
           Product: Tomcat 6
           Version: 6.0.36
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
          Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
          Reporter: mmcclain@uplogix.com
    Classification: Unclassified

NIST lists all versions prior to 7.0.28 as vulnerable.
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-5568

RedHat is also tracking this.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880011

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[Bug 54263] CVE-2012-5568 Tomcat is vulnerable to Slowloris denial of service

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54263

Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> ---
Quoting [1]
"Note that all networked servers are subject to denial of service attacks, and
we cannot promise magic workarounds to generic problems (such as a client
streaming lots of data to your server, or re-requesting the same URL
repeatedly). In general our philosophy is to avoid any attacks which can cause
the server to consume resources in a non-linear relationship to the size of
inputs."

Also, this was discussed on the users mailing list [2] many years ago.

[1] http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
[2] http://tomcat.markmail.org/thread/7pjy3f3n3gasclih

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