cve-2023-42794
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-10 17:17
Modified
2024-08-02 19:30
Severity ?
Summary
Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. The internal fork of Commons FileUpload packaged with Apache Tomcat 9.0.70 through 9.0.80 and 8.5.85 through 8.5.93 included an unreleased, in progress refactoring that exposed a potential denial of service on Windows if a web application opened a stream for an uploaded file but failed to close the stream. The file would never be deleted from disk creating the possibility of an eventual denial of service due to the disk being full. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.81 onwards or 8.5.94 onwards, which fixes the issue.
References
security@apache.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread/vvbr2ms7lockj1hlhz5q3wmxb2mwcw82Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread/vvbr2ms7lockj1hlhz5q3wmxb2mwcw82Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
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