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Fedora: 2016-4094bd4ad6 Critical: Tomcat Privilege Escalation Risks

fedora
Calendar Grey November 13, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This release tackles several Apache Tomcat concerns, featuring significant resolutions for elevation of privileges and adjustments in proxy header handling.
This updates includes a rebase from tomcat 8.0.36 up to 8.0.38 which resolves multiple CVEs and a problem that 8.0.37 introduces to freeipa: * rhbz#1375581 - CVE-2016-5388 Tomcat: ...

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 8.0.36 up to 8.0.38 which resolves multiple CVEs and a problem that 8.0.37 introduces to freeipa: * rhbz#1375581 - CVE-2016-5388 Tomcat: CGI sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header * rhbz#1390532 - CVE-2016-0762 CVE-2016-5018 CVE-2016-6794 CVE-2016-6796 CVE-2016-6797 tomcat: various flaws and includes two additional CVE fixes along with one bug fix: * rhbz#1383210 - CVE-2016-5425 tomcat: Local privilege escalation via systemd-tmpfiles service * rhbz#1383216 - CVE-2016-6325 tomcat: tomcat writable config files allow privilege escalation * rhbz#1370262 - catalina.out is no longer in use in the main package, but still gets rotated

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security advisory critical software update Fedora privilege escalation Tomcat proxy risks

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1375581 - CVE-2016-5388 Tomcat: CGI sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375581 [ 2 ] Bug #1383216 - CVE-2016-6325 tomcat: tomcat writable config files allow privilege escalation [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383216 [ 3 ] Bug #1383210 - CVE-2016-5425 tomcat: Local privilege escalation via systemd-tmpfiles service [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383210 [ 4 ] Bug #1370262 - catalina.out is no longer in use in the main package, but still gets rotated https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370262 [ 5 ] Bug #1390532 - CVE-2016-0762 CVE-2016-5018 CVE-2016-6794 CVE-2016-6796 CVE-2016-6797 tomcat: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1390532

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: 8.0.38
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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security advisory critical software update Fedora privilege escalation Tomcat proxy risks

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