Bug 56409

Summary:	A file called "\" causes StackOverflowError in tldScanResourcePaths during startup
Product:	Tomcat 7	Reporter:	Conrad Kostecki <Kostecki>
Component:	Servlet & JSP API	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	7.0.42
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Conrad Kostecki 2014-04-14 16:28:20 UTC

at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:366)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398)
(... repeats a lot of times)

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create a file named "\" below WEB-INF in an own folder
2) Start Tomcat7

Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2014-04-17 11:43:19 UTC

For the record a similar issues exists in Tomcat 8. I'll take a look...

Comment 2 Mark Thomas 2014-04-17 15:47:34 UTC

Thanks for the report. This has been fixed in 7.0.x and 8.0.x and will be included in 7.0.54 and 8.0.6 onwards.