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Fedora 24: Critical Update for Tomcat CVE-2016-8745 Information Disclosure

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Fedora 24 enhances Tomcat to resolve a significant information exposure vulnerability identified as CVE-2016-8745. This update includes essential guidelines for users.
Security fix for CVE-2016-8745

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:

Security fix for CVE-2016-8745

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1403824 - CVE-2016-8745 tomcat: information disclosure due to incorrect Processor sharing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403824

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 24
Version: 8.0.41
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://tomcat.apache.org/
Summary: Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 3.1/JSP 2.3 API

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