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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RHSA-2020-2529-01 Important: Tomcat6 RCE

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2020
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An update for tomcat6 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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):
* tomcat: deserialization flaw in session persistence storage leading to RCE (CVE-2020-9484)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat remote execution important apache tomcat session storage

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-9484 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
Source: tomcat6-6.0.24-115.el6_10.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat6-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-webapps-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
Source: tomcat6-6.0.24-115.el6_10.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat6-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-webapps-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: tomcat6-6.0.24-115.el6_10.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat6-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-115.el6_10.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2529-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2529
Issue date: 2020-06-11

Topic

An update for tomcat6 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat remote execution important apache tomcat session storage

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1838332 - CVE-2020-9484 tomcat: deserialization flaw in session persistence storage leading to RCE

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