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openSUSE: 2020:0038-1 Critical Updates for Tomcat Session Security Issues

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
critical openSUSE Security Patch for tomcat addresses session fixation and privilege escalation vulnerabilities affecting users.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for tomcat to version 9.0.30 fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2019-12418: Fixed a local privilege escalation through by

manipulating the RMI registry and performing a man-in-the-middle attack

(bsc#1159723).

- CVE-2019-17563: Fixed a session fixation attack when using FORM

authentication (bsc#1159729).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update privilege escalation important tomcat session fixation openSUSE

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-38=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

tomcat-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-el-3_0-api-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-embed-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-javadoc-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-jsvc-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-lib-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-servlet-4_0-api-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

tomcat-webapps-9.0.30-lp151.3.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10072.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12418.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17563.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1139924

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159723

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159729

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0038-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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security advisory update privilege escalation important tomcat session fixation openSUSE

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