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Fedora: 2016-03-25 Critical: Tomcat Security Fix CVE-2016-0763

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Calendar Grey March 25, 2016
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The latest Fedora security patch for Tomcat resolves various vulnerabilities, such as configuration file transitions and a critical update addressing CVE-2016-0763.
- Revert sysconfig migration changes, resolves: rhbz#1311771, rhbz#1311905 - Add /etc/tomcat/conf.d/ with shell expansion support, resolves rhbz#1293636 ---- - Load sysconfig from ...

Summary

Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference

Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by

Sun under the Java Community Process.

Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and

released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended

to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.

Update Information:

- Revert sysconfig migration changes, resolves: rhbz#1311771, rhbz#1311905 - Add /etc/tomcat/conf.d/ with shell expansion support, resolves rhbz#1293636 ---- - Load sysconfig from tomcat.conf, resolves: rhbz#1311771, rhbz#1311905 - Set default javax.sql.DataSource factory to apache commons one, resolves rhbz#1214381 ---- - Updated to 7.0.68 - Fix symlinks from $CATALINA_HOME/lib perspective, resolves: rhbz#1308685 - Fix tomcat user shell, resolves rhbz#1302718 - Remove log4j support. It has never been working actually. See rhbz#1236297 - Move shipped config to /etc/sysconfig/tomcat. /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf can now be used to override it with shell expansion, resolves rhbz#1293636 - Security fix for CVE-2016-0763

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security advisory security issue critical Fedora security fix system update tomcat

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1311093 - CVE-2016-0763 tomcat: security manager bypass via setGlobalContext() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311093

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update tomcat' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: tomcat
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 7.0.68
Release: 3.fc22
URL: https://tomcat.apache.org/
Summary: Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 3.0/JSP 2.2 API

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security advisory security issue critical Fedora security fix system update tomcat

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