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Debian 10: DLA-3779-1 Medium: Tomcat9 Denial of Service Threats

debian lts
Calendar Grey April 6, 2024
Dist Debian Esm H88
Tomcat9 security issues in Debian LTS: DLA-3779-1. Measures taken to address denial of service vulnerabilities highlighted.
Two security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine

Summary

CVE-2024-24549

Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for
HTTP/2. 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 all of the headers had been processed.

CVE-2024-23672

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability. It was possible
for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to
increased resource consumption.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version
9.0.31-1~deb10u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat9 packages.

For the detailed security status of tomcat9 please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/tomcat9

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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Package: tomcat9
Version: 9.0.31-1~deb10u12
CVE ID: CVE-2024-23672 CVE-2024-24549
Debian Bug: 1066877 1066878

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