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VPR Score: 2.5
Synopsis
The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
It was discovered that the ChunkedInputFilter in Tomcat did not fail subsequent attempts to read input after malformed chunked encoding was detected. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Tomcat process part of the request body as new request, or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0227)
After installing this update, the tomcat service will be restarted automatically.
Solution
Update the affected packages.