Apache Tomcat Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2012-2733 - Vulnerability Database

Apache Tomcat Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2012-2733

Medium
Reference: CVE-2012-2733
Title: Apache Tomcat Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Overview:

java/org/apache/coyote/http11/InternalNioInputBuffer.java in the HTTP NIO connector in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.28 does not properly restrict the request-header size which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large amount of header data.