Re: Tomcat 4.x security issue in protected environment

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Thomas
The short answers are: 1. No 2. No The longer answer is: This is categorically *not* a security issue with Tomcat. I have tested this and Tomcat continues to operate correctly after a request with a very long host header. This looks to me like an issue with your daemon. And a few tips for

Tomcat 4.x security issue in protected environment

2005-07-11 Thread Rashma N
Hi, We are using Tomcat 4.0.4 in our product. We have a daemon which is a wrapper around the tomcat. We are facing one security issue with the Tomcat. If we send a HTTP packet with a long string in the Host field, it closes the connection. EX: telnet machine port on which tomcat is running