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RHSA-2014%3A0252

RHSA-2014%3A0252 PUBLISHED CVSS 5 MEDIUM

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Apache Commons FileUpload, which is embedded in Tomcat and JBoss Web, handled small-sized buffers used by MultipartStream. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create a malformed Content-Type header for a multipart request, causing Tomcat to enter an infinite loop when processing such an incoming request.

Risk Scores

CVSS 2.0
5

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2

Timeline

  • Mar 5, 2014 CVE Published
  • Apr 29, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Apr 29, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
  • Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
  • May 14, 2026 CVE Updated
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