CVE-2012-5568 Information

Description

Apache Tomcat through 7.0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via partial HTTP requests as demonstrated by Slowloris.

Reference

http://captainholly.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/slowloris-vs-tomcat/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00089.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00090.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00037.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/26/2 http://tomcat.10.n6.nabble.com/How-does-Tomcat-handle-a-slow-HTTP-DoS-tc2147776.html http://tomcat.10.n6.nabble.com/How-does-Tomcat-handle-a-slow-HTTP-DoS-tc2147779.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56686 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880011 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80317