# CVE-2008-7227: Denial of service in n/a

> A flaw in GeoServer's buffer handling prevents proper exception reporting, potentially leading to denial of service conditions.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not stated
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not stated
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Sep 2009
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024

## What is CVE-2008-7227?

CVE-2008-7227 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Sep 2009. It can be exploited over the network.

### Official description

PartialBufferOutputStream2 in GeoServer before 1.6.1 and 1.7.0-beta1 attempts to flush buffer contents even when it is handling an "in memory buffer," which prevents the reporting of a service exception, with unknown impact and attack vectors.

Weakness: CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-7227?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Geoserver Geoserver.

## How do I fix CVE-2008-7227?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-7227 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2008-7227 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-7227 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2024-36401](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36401/): OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools Eval Injection (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-58360](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-58360/): OSGeo GeoServer Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (high 8.2, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-35042](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-35042/): GeoServer RCE due to improper control of generation of code in jai-ext`Jiffle` map algebra language (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-24749](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24749/): Classpath resource disclosure in GWC Web Resource API on Windows / Tomcat (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-41877](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-41877/): GeoServer log file path traversal vulnerability (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-7227 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2008-7227 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 14 Sep 2009. It can be exploited over the network.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-7227 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-7227/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-7227/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-7227
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7227
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-7227

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