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openSUSE Leap 42.3: Security Update for Tomcat Redirection Issue

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Fix for a medium risk URL redirection vulnerability in Tomcat has been released for openSUSE. Discover the steps to secure your system.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for tomcat fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-11784: When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat returned a

redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user

requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the

redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.

(bsc#1110850)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update patching tomcat openSUSE redirection issue

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-2018-1276=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

tomcat-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-admin-webapps-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-docs-webapp-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-el-3_0-api-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-embed-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-javadoc-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-jsvc-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-lib-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-servlet-3_1-api-8.0.53-18.1

tomcat-webapps-8.0.53-18.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11784.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110850

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3453-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update patching tomcat openSUSE redirection issue

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