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openSUSE Leap 15.0 SUSE: 2018:3054-1 Moderate: Tomcat DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest Tomcat release for openSUSE addresses several vulnerabilities, notably enhancing security against denial of service attacks and correcting unsafe default configurations for filters.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for tomcat to version 9.0.10 fixes the following issues:

Security issues 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-2018-8014: Fix insecure default CORS filter settings (bsc#1093697).

- 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...

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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 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1129=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

tomcat-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-el-3_0-api-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-embed-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-javadoc-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-jsvc-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-lib-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-servlet-4_0-api-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

tomcat-webapps-9.0.10-lp150.2.3.2

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/1102379

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102400

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102410

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3054-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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