Mageia 2021-0072: tomcat security update
Mageia 2021-0072: tomcat security update
When serving resources from a network location using the NTFS file system it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code for JSPs in some configurations. The root cause was the unexpected behaviour of the JRE API File.getCanonicalPath() which in turn was caused by the inconsistent behaviour of the Windows API (FindFirstFileW) in some circumstances
MGASA-2021-0072 - Updated tomcat packages fix a security vulnerability Publication date: 06 Feb 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0072.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 7 CVE: CVE-2021-24122 When serving resources from a network location using the NTFS file system it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code for JSPs in some configurations. The root cause was the unexpected behaviour of the JRE API File.getCanonicalPath() which in turn was caused by the inconsistent behaviour of the Windows API (FindFirstFileW) in some circumstances (CVE-2021-24122). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28093 - https://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_9.0.40 - https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/14/1 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-24122 SRPMS: - 7/core/tomcat-9.0.39-1.1.mga7