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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2017-0935-01 Moderate: Tomcat Exploit

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2017
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Red Hat has released a vital security update for Apache Tomcat on RHEL 7, addressing critical vulnerabilities. Users must apply RHSA-2023:XXXX to protect applications.
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.
Security Fix(es):
* It was discovered that the code that parsed the HTTP request line permitted invalid characters. This could be exploited, in conjunction with a proxy that also permitted the invalid characters but with a different interpretation, to inject data into the HTTP response. By manipulating the HTTP response the attacker could poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack, or obtain sensitive information from requests other then their own. (CVE-2016-6816)
Note: This fix causes Tomcat to respond with an HTTP 400 Bad Request error when request contains characters that are not permitted by the HTTP specification to appear not encoded, even though they were previously accepted. The newly introduced system property tomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow can be used to configure Tomcat to accept curly braces ({ and }) and the pipe symbol (|) in not encoded form, as these are often used in URLs without being properly encoded.
* A bug was discovered in the error handling of the send file code for the NIO HTTP connector. This led to the current Processor object being added to the Processor cache multiple times allowing information leakage between requests including, and not limited to, session ID and the response body. (CVE-2016-8745)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6816 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8745 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: tomcat-7.0.69-11.el7_3.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: tomcat-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-javadoc-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsvc-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-lib-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-webapps-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: tomcat-7.0.69-11.el7_3.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: tomcat-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-javadoc-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsvc-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-lib-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm tomcat-webapps-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: tomcat-7.0.69-11.el7_3.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-7.0.69-11.el7_3.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0935-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2017-04-12

Topic

An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1397484 - CVE-2016-6816 tomcat: HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting invalid character in HTTP requests

1403824 - CVE-2016-8745 tomcat: information disclosure due to incorrect Processor sharing

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