Medium: tomcat6

Issue Overview:

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.

Affected Packages:

tomcat6

Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat6 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-webapps-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-lib-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat6-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-0227

Mitre: CVE-2014-0227