CVE-2012-5568

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Tomcat versions prior to 8.0.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a daemon outage, via partial HTTP requests. This can be demonstrated by tools such as Slowloris, which can exploit this issue to overwhelm the server.

Recommendations For Apache Tomcat versions prior to 8.0.0, update to version 8.0.0 or later to resolve the issue.