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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2016.1583
CVE-2016-3092: Apache Tomcat Denial of Service
23 June 2016
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Apache Tomcat
Publisher: The Apache Software Foundation
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Unknown/Unspecified
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2016-3092
Original Bulletin:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-dev/201606.mbox/%3C6223ece6-2b41-ef4f-22f9-d3481e492832@apache.org%3E
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CVE-2016-3092: Apache Tomcat Denial of Service
Severity: Moderate
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0M6
Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.2
Apache Tomcat 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.35
Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.69
Earlier versions are not affected.
Description:
CVE-2016-3092 is a denial of service vulnerability that has been
corrected in the Apache Commons FileUpload component. It occurred when
the length of the multipart boundary was just below the size of the
buffer (4096 bytes) used to read the uploaded file. This caused the file
upload process to take several orders of magnitude longer than if the
boundary length was the typical tens of bytes.
Apache Tomcat uses a package renamed copy of Apache Commons FileUpload
to implement the file upload requirements of the Servlet specification
and was therefore also vulnerable to the denial of service vulnerability.
Applications that do not use the File Upload feature introduced in
Servlet 3.0 are not affected by the Tomcat aspect of this vulnerability.
If those applications use Apache Commons FileUpload, they may still be
affected.
Mitigation:
Users of affected versions should apply one of the following mitigations
- - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M8 or later
(9.0.0.M7 has the fix but was not released)
- - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.5.3 or later
- - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.0.36 or later
- - Upgrade to Apache Tomcat 7.0.70 or later
Workaround:
The issue may be mitigated by limiting the length of the boundary.
Applications could do this with a custom Filter to reject requests that
use large boundaries.
Tomcat provides the maxHttpHeaderSize attribute on the Connector that
can be used to limit the total HTTP header size. Users should be aware
that reducing this to 3072 (which should be low enough to protect
against this DoS) may cause other issues as applications can require
larger headers than this for correct operation, particularly if the
application uses relatively large cookie values.
Credit:
This issue was identified by the TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team
at the Software Engineering, Research and Development Headquarters and
reported to the ASF via JPCERT.
References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
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