CVE-2014-0230
It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing requests with a large enough request body. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust the pool of available connections and preventing further, legitimate connections to the Tomcat server to be made.
Find out more about CVE-2014-0230 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 for RHEL 7 | RHSA-2015:2660 | 2015-12-16 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 for RHEL 6 | RHSA-2015:2659 | 2015-12-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (tomcat) | RHSA-2016:2599 | 2016-11-03 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 5 Server (jbossweb) | RHSA-2016:0595 | 2016-04-05 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 5 Server | RHSA-2015:1622 | 2015-08-13 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 for RHEL 7 | RHEA-2015:1770 | 2015-09-10 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 | RHSA-2016:0599 | 2016-04-05 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7 Server | RHSA-2015:1622 | 2015-08-13 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6 Server | RHSA-2015:1622 | 2015-08-13 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 Server (jbossweb) | RHSA-2016:0596 | 2016-04-05 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3 for RHEL 7 Server (jbossweb) | RHSA-2016:0597 | 2016-04-05 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 for RHEL 6 | RHEA-2015:1771 | 2015-09-10 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 Server (jboss-ec2-eap) | RHSA-2016:0598 | 2016-04-05 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 | RHSA-2015:2661 | 2015-12-16 |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1 | RHSA-2015:1621 | 2015-08-13 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 | tomcat6 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 | tomcat5 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 4 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 | jbossweb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | tomcat6 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | tomcat5 | Will not fix |