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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:4042-1 Moderate: Tomcat Redirect Problem

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update addressing moderate security vulnerability in tomcat for openSUSE Leap 15.0 is now accessible. Users are advised to install this update promptly.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for tomcat to 9.0.12 fixes the following issues:

See the full changelog at:

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html

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Security issues fixed:

- 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-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update instructions tomcat openSUSE redirect 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 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1504=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

tomcat-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-el-3_0-api-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-embed-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-javadoc-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-jsvc-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-lib-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-servlet-4_0-api-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

tomcat-webapps-9.0.12-lp150.2.6.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110850

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4042-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update instructions tomcat openSUSE redirect issue

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