National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0022

Overview

Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.35, 6.x before 6.0.34, and 7.x before 7.0.23 uses an inefficient approach for handling parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a request that contains many parameters and parameter values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4858.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: apache-tomcat-parameter-dos(72425)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72425

External Source: BID

Name: 51447

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51447

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html

Hyperlink:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2401

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2401

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50863

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50863

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48791

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48791

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48790

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48790

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48213

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48213

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1331

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1331.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:0345

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0345.html

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBUX02741

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132871655717248&w=2

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20120117 [SECURITY] CVE-2012-0022 Apache Tomcat Denial of Service

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0112.html