rhsa-2011_0213
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2011-02-10 19:42
Modified
2024-11-14 11:28
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: jbossweb security update

Notes

Topic
Updated jbossweb packages that fix one security issue are now available for JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5 from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.
Details
JBoss Web Server is a web container based on Apache Tomcat. It provides a single deployment platform for the JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet technologies. A denial of service flaw was found in the way certain strings were converted to Double objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause JBoss Web Server to hang via a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2010-4476) All users of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5 as provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this patch. Refer to the Solution section of this erratum for patch download instructions. The JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to take effect.
Terms of Use
This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.



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            text: "JBoss Web Server is a web container based on Apache Tomcat. It provides a\nsingle deployment platform for the JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet\ntechnologies.\n\nA denial of service flaw was found in the way certain strings were\nconverted to Double objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause\nJBoss Web Server to hang via a specially-crafted HTTP request.\n(CVE-2010-4476)\n\nAll users of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5 as provided from the Red Hat\nCustomer Portal are advised to apply this patch. Refer to the Solution\nsection of this erratum for patch download instructions. The JBoss server\nprocess must be restarted for this update to take effect.",
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