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CVE-2002-0935 (GCVE-0-2002-0935)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-04-02 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:03
VLAI
Summary
Apache Tomcat 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.1.3 beta, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of requests to the server with null characters, which causes the working threads to hang.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/… mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
http://www.osvdb.org/5051 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5067 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9396.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b6257… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf2… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2002-06-20 00:00
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