+1  Thank you to you both :)

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]>wrote:

> and to JL to drive it so hard ;)
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> 2014-04-07 22:44 GMT+02:00 Jean-Louis MONTEIRO <[email protected]>:
> > Forgot a big big thank you to Romain as usual. He's always so active and
> > efficient that we sometimes forget to highlight his high valuable
> > contribution.
> >
> > Thanks Romain.
> >
> >
> > 2014-04-07 21:50 GMT+02:00 Jean-Louis MONTEIRO <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> Hi devs,
> >>
> >> As discussed heavily, the security maintenance release to fix the Tomcat
> >> CVE 2014-50.
> >> According to our discussions and decisions summarized here
> >> https://tomee.apache.org/security/index.html
> >> we will start the release process.
> >>
> >> Special thanks to Jon who has worked heavily to prepare everything and
> >> ensure the TCK all passes.
> >>
> >> Another big thanks to Andy who proposed to be the release manager.
> >>
> >> That's what I call a community.
> >>
> >> Jean-Louis
> >>
> >>
> >> See the end of the message for more details on the CVE.
> >>
> >> *Important: Denial of Service* CVE-2014-0050<
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0050>
> >>
> >> It was possible to craft a malformed Content-Type header for a multipart
> >> request that caused Apache Tomcat to enter an infinite loop. A malicious
> >> user could, therefore, craft a malformed request that triggered a
> denial of
> >> service.
> >>
> >> The root cause of this error was a bug in Apache Commons FileUpload.
> >> Tomcat 7 uses a packaged renamed copy of Apache Commons FileUpload to
> >> implement the requirement of the Servlet 3.0 specification to support
> the
> >> processing of mime-multipart requests. Tomcat 7 was therefore affected
> by
> >> this issue.
> >>
> >> This was fixed in revision 1565169<
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1565169>
> >> .
> >>
> >> This issue was reported to the Apache Software Foundation on 04 Feb 2014
> >> and accidently made public on 06 Feb 2014.
> >>
> >> Affects: 7.0.0-7.0.50
> >> --
> >> Jean-Louis
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Louis
>

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