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Medium ALAS2023-2024-471 1 CVE

Moderate: tomcat9 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jan 3, 2024 · Updated Jan 8, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-46589: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.Tomcat from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.15, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.82 and from 8.5.0 through 8.5.95 did not correctly parse HTTP trailer headers. A trailer header that exceeded the header size limit 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-M11 onwards, 10.1.16 onwards, 9.0.83 onwards or 8.5.96 onwards, which fix the issue.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9-admin-webapps 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9-docs-webapp 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9-el-3.0-api 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9-jsp-2.3-api 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9-lib 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9-servlet-4.0-api 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 tomcat9-webapps 1:9.0.82-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    Apache Tomcat: HTTP request smuggling via malformed trailer headers

    Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.Tomcat from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.15, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.82 and from 8.5.0 through 8.5.95 did not correctly parse HTTP trailer headers. A trailer header that e…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-46589.html