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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:0711-1 Important: Tomcat Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch for Apache Tomcat addresses significant vulnerabilities related to remote execution for openSUSE environments.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for tomcat fixes the following issues:

- Update to Tomcat 9.0.35. See changelog at

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

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* CVE-2020-9484 (bsc#1171928) Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution via

session persistence

If an attacker was able to control the contents and name of a file on a

server configured to use the PersistenceManager, then the attacker could

have triggered a remote code execution via deserialization of the file

under their control.

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

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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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-711=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

tomcat-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-el-3_0-api-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-embed-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-javadoc-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-jsvc-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-lib-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-servlet-4_0-api-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

tomcat-webapps-9.0.35-lp151.3.18.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-9484.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171928

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0711-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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