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Fedora 23 Tomcat Update 8.0.39 Critical: Multiple Flaws

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security patch for Tomcat in Fedora 23 resolves various vulnerabilities through an upgrade to version 8.0.39, improving overall system security.
This updates includes a rebase from tomcat 8.0.38 up to 8.0.39 which resolves multiple CVEs: * \#1397493 - CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6817 CVE-2016-8735 tomcat: various flaws

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:

This updates includes a rebase from tomcat 8.0.38 up to 8.0.39 which resolves multiple CVEs: * \#1397493 - CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6817 CVE-2016-8735 tomcat: various flaws

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1397493 - CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6817 CVE-2016-8735 tomcat: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397493

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade tomcat' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: tomcat
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 8.0.39
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://tomcat.apache.org/
Summary: Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 3.1/JSP 2.3 API

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