RedHat Update for tomcat5 RHSA-2011:0336-01

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
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