CVE-2012-3544
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Apache Tomcat Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Improper Handling of chunk extensions
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.tomcat:tomcat | >=6.0.0,<6.0.37 | 6.0.37 |
| Maven | org.apache.tomcat:tomcat | >=7.0.0,<7.0.30 | 7.0.30 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | tomcat | 6.0 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.0 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.1 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.2 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.3 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.4 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.5 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.6 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.7 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.8 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.9 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.10 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.11 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.12 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.13 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.14 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.15 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.16 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.17 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.18 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.19 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.20 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.24 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.26 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.27 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.28 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.29 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.30 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.31 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.32 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.33 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.35 | |
| apache | tomcat | 6.0.36 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.0 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.1 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.2 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.3 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.4 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.5 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.6 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.7 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.8 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.9 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.10 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.11 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.12 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.13 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.14 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.15 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.16 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.17 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.18 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.19 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.20 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.21 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.22 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.23 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.25 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0.28 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3544.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0042.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java?r1=1476592&r2=1476591&pathrev=1476592
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378702
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1378921
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1476592
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59797
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64758
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1841-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3544
- https://github.com/apache/tomcat
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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