Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat.
David Jorm discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain requests submitted using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Tomcat server to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0075)
30 July 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat.
David Jorm discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain requests submitted using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Tomcat server to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0075)
It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets. An attacker could use this issue with a crafted web application to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files. (CVE-2014-0096)
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain Content-Length headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw in configurations where Tomcat is behind a reverse proxy to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2014-0099)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.