tomcat: information leak vulnerability in the handling of 'Transfer-Encoding' header

Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 through 5.5.29, 6.0.0 through 6.0.27, and 7.0.0 beta does not properly handle an invalid Transfer-Encoding header, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application outage or obtain sensitive information via a crafted header that interferes with "recycling...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 6.0.28

Important: Remote Denial Of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2010-2227 Several flaws in the handling of the 'Transfer-Encoding' header were found that prevented the recycling of a buffer. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw which would cause subsequent requests to fail...