Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.
A denial of service flaw was found in the way certain strings were converted to Double objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Tomcat to hang via a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2010-4476)
Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.
Affected
tomcat5 on CentOS 5
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-4476 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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