CVE-2002-0935 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0120.html http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/277940 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9396.php http://www.osvdb.org/5051 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5067 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E