What about 8.5.x branch? Is that also affected. And I am not able to see this 
update on Tomcat security page. Any reasons for that?

Regards,
Chinoy

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 3:23 PM
To: us...@tomcat.apache.org; dev@tomcat.apache.org; annou...@tomcat.apache.org; 
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Subject: Fwd: CVE-2016-3092: Apache Commons Fileupload information disclosure 
vulnerability


-------- Original Message --------
From: Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com>
Sent: 21 June 2016 10:18:15 BST
To: priv...@commons.apache.org, "secur...@apache.org" <secur...@apache.org>, 
Tomcat Security List <secur...@tomcat.apache.org>, annou...@apache.org, Apache 
Commons Developers List <d...@commons.apache.org>
Subject: CVE-2016-3092: Apache Commons Fileupload information disclosure 
vulnerability

CVE-2016-3092: Apache Commons Fileupload information disclosure vulnerability

Severity: Moderate

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache Commons Fileupload 1.3 to 1.3.1
Apache Commons Fileupload 1.2 to 1.2.2
The unsupported Apache Commons Fileupload 1.0.x, and 1.1.x may also be affected.
Apache Tomcat 9.x to 9.0.0M6
Apache Tomcat 8.x to 8.0.35
Apache Tomcat 7.x to 7.0.69
Apache Tomcat 6.x
Unsupported versions of Apache Tomcat, like 5.x may also be affected.
Apache Struts 2.5.x, and previous versions, which are distributing Commons 
FileUpload 1.3.1, or earlier versions.

Description:
A malicious client can send file upload requests that cause the HTTP server 
using the Apache Commons Fileupload library to become unresponsive, preventing 
the server from servicing other requests.

This flaw is not exploitable beyond causing the code to loop expending CPU 
resources.


Mitigation:
All users of Apache Commons Fileupload should upgrade to 1.3.2.
All users of Apache Tomcat should upgrade to 9.0.0M8, 8.0.36, or 7.0.70, 
respectively.
All users of Apache Struts should replace the copy of Commons FileUpload (which 
is distributed as part of Struts) with the fixed version 1.3.2.

Workaround:

System administrators should restrict the permitted maximum size of HTTP 
request header values (For example, Apache Httpd provides a 
LimitRequestFieldSize directive, and Apache Tomcat provides a maxHttpHeaderSize 
attribute in their respective configuration files). A maximum header value size 
of 2048 bytes would block all dangerous request.

Example:
File upload requests contain a so-called boundary in the Content-Type header:

    Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
          boundary=gc0p4Jq0M2Yt08jU534c0p

The boundary may be chosen by the request sender. In the case of previous 
versions of Apache Commons Fileupload the boundary becomes dangerous, if its 
size is close to 4096 bytes.

Credit:
TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team at the Software Engineering, Research and 
Development Headquarter, for detecting this flaw, and reporting it to the 
JPCERT/CC, Taki Uchiyama (JPCERT/CC Vulnerability Handling Team) reported this 
problem to us.

References:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-fileupload/security.html

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