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A vulnerability has been reported for Apache Tomcat 4.0.3 on a Microsoft Windows platform. Reportedly, it is possible for a remote attacker to make requests consisting of a large number of null characters to Tomcat that will cause the web service to stop responding. By making numerous malformed requests, the attacker is able to exhaust all available threads for Tomcat leading to the denial of service condition.

A vulnerability has been reported for Apache Tomcat 4.0.3 on a Microsoft Windows platform. Reportedly, it is possible for a remote attacker to make requests consisting of a large number of null characters to Tomcat that will cause the web service to stop responding. By making numerous malformed requests, the attacker is able to exhaust all available threads for Tomcat leading to the denial of service condition.