Issued:

2015-05-12

Updated:

2015-05-12

RHSA-2015:0983 - Moderate: tomcat security update

Synopsis

Moderate: tomcat security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated tomcat packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Description

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

It was discovered that the ChunkedInputFilter in Tomcat did not fail subsequent attempts to read input after malformed chunked encoding was detected. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Tomcat process part of the request body as new request, or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0227)

All Tomcat 7 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, the tomcat service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• tomcat-jsvc-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-javadoc-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-lib-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-webapps-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm
• tomcat-7.0.54-2.el7_1.src.rpm
• tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.54-2.el7_1.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1109196

CVEs

• CVE-2014-0227

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• Content from tomcat.apache.org is not included.Content from tomcat.apache.org is not included.https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.55

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.