Issued:
2013-02-20
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0480 - tomcat6 bug fix update

Synopsis

tomcat6 bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated tomcat6 packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The tomcat 6 packages provide Apache Tomcat 6, which is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Apache Tomcat initscripts should be located in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. However, the comman initscript was previously located in the /etc/init.d directory due to a mistake in the package specs file. With this update, the specs file has been updated and the conman script is located in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory along with other initscripts as expected. (BZ#576540)

  • When a web application used its own class loader, a deadlock in Tomcat WebappClassLoader could occur when compiling JSPs due to a synchronization bug. This update fixes the synchronization bug and external class loaders no longer interfere with WebappClassLoader. (BZ#847288)

  • The service status returned an incorrect tomcat6 status when TOMCAT_USER in the /etc/tomcat6/tomcat6.conf file was changed to a user whose UID differed from the user GID due to incorrect logic in retrieving the process details. With this update, the code has been modified and the correct service status is now returned in this scenario. (BZ#798617)

  • When Tomcat attempted to import a non-existing page with JavaScript fragments in the URL parameters, it returned a message that the resource was not available. This update adds HTML filtering to Tomcat and the servlet container now correctly returns the message that the resource is missing in this scenario. (BZ#785954)

Users of tomcat6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-6.0.24-49.el6.src.rpm
  • tomcat6-webapps-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-49.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information