Issued:
2024-06-11
Updated:
2024-06-11

RHSA-2024:3814 - Important: tomcat security and bug fix update


Synopsis

Important: tomcat security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

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

Description

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:RHEL-34811)

  • Amend tomcat package's changelog so that fixed CVEs are mentioned explicitly (JIRA:RHEL-37865)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support8.8ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support8.8s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.8aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.8ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.8x86_64

Updated Packages

  • tomcat-el-3.0-api-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-servlet-4.0-api-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-webapps-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-lib-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-jsp-2.3-api-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat-9.0.87-1.el8_8.2.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References


Additional information