[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: apache-commons-fileupload-1.3-5.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-2175
2014-02-08 04:07:16
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Name        : apache-commons-fileupload
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.3
Release     : 5.fc20
URL         : http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/
Summary     : This package provides an api to work with html file upload
Description :
The javax.servlet package lacks support for rfc 1867, html file
upload.  This package provides a simple to use api for working with
such data.  The scope of this package is to create a package of Java
utility classes to read multipart/form-data within a
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest

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Update Information:

This update fixes a denial of service vulnerability which could be triggered by specially-crafted input if the buffer used by the MultipartSteeam was not big enough.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb  6 2014 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> - 1.3-5
- Add backported upstream patch to fix DoS vulnerability
- Resolves: CVE-2014-0050
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1062337 - CVE-2014-0050 apache-commons-fileupload: denial of service due to too-small buffer size used bt MultipartStream
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062337
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