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High ELSA-2024-3666 2 CVEs

Important: tomcat security and bug fix update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jun 6, 2024 · Updated Jun 6, 2024

Summary

[1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1]
- Resolves: RHEL-38548 - Amend tomcat package's changelog so that fixed CVEs are mentioned explicitly
- Resolves: RHEL-35813 - Rebase tomcat to version 9.0.87
- Resolves: RHEL-29255
tomcat: Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake (CVE-2024-23672)
- Resolves: RHEL-29250
tomcat: Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS (CVE-2024-24549)

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat-admin-webapps 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat-docs-webapp 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat-el-3.0-api 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat-jsp-2.3-api 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat-lib 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat-servlet-4.0-api 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1
Oracle Linux · 8 tomcat-webapps 1:9.0.87-1.el8_10.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2024-24549 Public exploit EPSS 23%

    Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS

    Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat. When processing an HTTP/2 request, if the request exceeded any of the configured limits for headers, the associated HTTP/2 stream was not reset until after …

  • Medium 6.3

    Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake

    Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, fr…