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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2016:3144-1 Important: Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2016
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Critical security patch for tomcat on openSUSE tackles significant vulnerabilities, reinforcing system security with vital updates.
An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now...

Description

This update for tomcat fixes the following issues:

Feature changes:

The embedded Apache Commons DBCP component was updated to version 2.0.

(bsc#1010893 fate#321029)

Security fixes:

- CVE-2016-0762: Realm Timing Attack (bsc#1007854)

- CVE-2016-5018: Security Manager Bypass (bsc#1007855)

- CVE-2016-6794: System Property Disclosure (bsc#1007857)

- CVE-2016-6796: Security Manager Bypass (bsc#1007858)

- CVE-2016-6797: Unrestricted Access to Global Resources (bsc#1007853)

- CVE-2016-8735: Remote code execution vulnerability in

JmxRemoteLifecycleListener (bsc#1011805)

- CVE-2016-6816: HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting

invalid character in HTTP requests (bsc#1011812)

Bug fixes:

- Enabled optional setenv.sh script. See section '(3.4) Using the "setenv"

script' in http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/RUNNING.txt.

(bsc#1002639)

This update supplies the new packages apache-commons-pool2 and

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1456=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch):

apache-commons-dbcp-2.1.1-2.1

apache-commons-dbcp-javadoc-2.1.1-2.1

apache-commons-pool2-2.4.2-2.1

apache-commons-pool2-javadoc-2.4.2-2.1

tomcat-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-admin-webapps-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-docs-webapp-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-el-3_0-api-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-embed-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-javadoc-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-jsvc-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-lib-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-servlet-3_1-api-8.0.36-4.1

tomcat-webapps-8.0.36-4.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0762.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5018.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6794.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6796.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6797.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6816.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8735.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1002639

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007853

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007854

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007855

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007857

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007858

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1010893

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011805

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011812

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:3144-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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