CVE-2005-3510 is an uncontrolled resource-consumption vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 through 5.5.11. Directory-listing generation for directories containing many files is computationally expensive. A remote attacker can issue numerous simultaneous directory-listing requests, causing excessive CPU consumption.
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Directory-listing denial of service caused by expensive processing of large directories.
Denial of service through expensive directory listing generation.
A remote denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Tomcat versions 5.5.0 through 5.5.11. An attacker can consume CPU resources by sending many simultaneous directory-listing requests against a web directory containing many files.
Directory-listing denial-of-service vulnerability.
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