Issued:
2011-03-10
Updated:
2011-03-10

RHSA-2011:0348 - Important: tomcat6 security update

Synopsis

Important: tomcat6 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated tomcat6 packages that fix two security issues are now available for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

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

A denial of service flaw was found in the way certain strings were converted to Double objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Tomcat to hang via a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2010-4476)

A flaw was found in the Tomcat NIO (Non-Blocking I/O) connector. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory condition) via a specially-crafted request containing a large NIO buffer size request value. (CVE-2011-0534)

Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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 This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
JBoss Enterprise Web Server1x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Web Server1i386

Updated Packages

  • tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-log4j-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.src.rpm
  • tomcat6-webapps-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-el-1.0-api-6.0.24-11.patch_03.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information