Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0081 (tomcat)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0081: Updated tomcat packages fix CVE-2014-0227 
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Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:38:12 +0100
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MGASA-2015-0081 - Updated tomcat packages fix CVE-2014-0227

Publication date: 19 Feb 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0081.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2014-0227

Description:
Updated tomcat packages fix security vulnerability:

In Apache Tomcat 7.x before 7.0.55, it was possible to craft a malformed chunk
as part of a chunked request that caused Tomcat to read part of the request
body as a new request (CVE-2014-0227).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15270
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0227

SRPMS:
- 4/core/tomcat-7.0.59-1.mga4