Description
Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.37 and 7.x before 7.0.30 does not properly handle chunk extensions in chunked transfer coding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by streaming data.
Published: 2013-06-01
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 44.8% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2725-1 tomcat6 security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-qfxv-3ppc-7qg5 Apache Tomcat Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Improper Handling of chunk extensions
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1841-1 Tomcat vulnerabilities
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0042.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java?r1=1476592&r2=1476591&pathrev=1476592 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378702 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378921 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1476592 cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59797 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64758 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1841-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3544 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3544 cve-icon
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Apache Tomcat
Redhat Jboss Enterprise Web Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:13:50.140Z

Reserved: 2012-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-3544

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Status : Modified

Published: 2013-06-01T14:21:05.750

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-3544

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-05-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-3544 - Bugzilla

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