CVE-2008-4308
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-02-26 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:08
Severity ?
Summary
The doRead method in Apache Tomcat 4.1.32 through 4.1.34 and 5.5.10 through 5.5.20 does not return a -1 to indicate when a certain error condition has occurred, which can cause Tomcat to send POST content from one request to a different request.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/34057Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501250
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33913
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0541Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40771Exploit, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000010.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/34057Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501250
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33913
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0541Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40771Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
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