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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:2740-1 Moderate: Tomcat Denial of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Ubuntu enhances Apache to address five vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw, improving security measures.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for tomcat to 8.0.53 fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-1336: An improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with

supplementary characters could have lead to an infinite loop in the

decoder causing a Denial of Service (bsc#1102400).

- CVE-2018-8034: The host name verification when using TLS with the

WebSocket client was missing. It is now enabled by default (bsc#1102379).

- CVE-2018-8037: If an async request was completed by the application at

the same time as the container triggered the async timeout, a race

condition existed that could have resulted in a user seeing a response

intended for a different user. An additional issue was present in the

NIO and NIO2 connectors that did not correctly track the closure of the

connection when an async request was completed by the application and

timed out by the container at the same time. This could also have

resulted in a user...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1019=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

tomcat-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-admin-webapps-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-docs-webapp-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-el-3_0-api-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-embed-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-javadoc-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-jsvc-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-lib-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-servlet-3_1-api-8.0.53-15.1

tomcat-webapps-8.0.53-15.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1336.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8014.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8034.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8037.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1067720

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1093697

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1095472

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102379

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102400

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102410

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2740-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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