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High RLSA-2024:3666 2 CVEs

Important: tomcat security and bug fix update

Published Jun 14, 2024 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.

Security Fix(es):

* Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS (CVE-2024-24549)

* Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake (CVE-2024-23672)

Bug Fix(es):

* Rebase tomcat to version 9.0.87 (JIRA:Rocky Linux-35813)

* Amend tomcat package's changelog so that fixed CVEs are mentioned explicitly (JIRA:Rocky Linux-38548)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 tomcat 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…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269607
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269608