CVE-2014-0227

java/org/apache/coyote/http11/filters/ChunkedInputFilter.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.42, 7.x before 7.0.55, and 8.x before 8.0.9 does not properly handle attempts to continue reading data after an error has occurred, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by streaming data with malformed chunked transfer coding.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.4 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2015-02-16

Last modified

2026-10-14

Weaknesses

CWE-19

Affected products

• Tomcat (Apache)

References

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2654-1
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:052
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143393515412274&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72717
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0991.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:084
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032791
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0983.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:053
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150282.html
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109196
• https://source.jboss.org/changelog/JBossWeb?cs=2455
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2015-02/0067.html
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0081.html
• http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2655-1
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1600984
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3447
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.or…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.or…