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High ALAS2-2024-2501 1 CVE

Important: tomcat security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 13, 2024 · Updated Mar 18, 2024

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-45648: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Tomcat from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M11, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.13, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.81 and from 8.5.0 through 8.5.93 did not correctly parse HTTP trailer headers. A specially crafted, invalid trailer header could cause Tomcat to treat a single request as multiple requests leading to the possibility of request smuggling when behind a reverse proxy. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M12 onwards, 10.1.14 onwards, 9.0.81 onwards or 8.5.94 onwards, which fix the issue.

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-admin-webapps 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-docs-webapp 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-el-2.2-api 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-javadoc 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-jsvc 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-lib 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7
Amazon Linux · 2 tomcat-webapps 0:7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.7

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-45648.html