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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 RHSA-2021-0882-01 Low: Tomcat Fix

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Keep up to date with the newest Red Hat security announcement regarding tomcat, focusing on minor concerns and their remedies.
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support

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: Session fixation when using FORM authentication (CVE-2019-17563)
* tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2020-1935)
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 security update Red Hat low severity security issues Tomcat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17563 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1935 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: tomcat-7.0.76-11.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6):
noarch: tomcat-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsvc-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-lib-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: tomcat-7.0.76-11.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-lib-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7):
Source: tomcat-7.0.76-11.el7_6.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-11.el7_6.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0882-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0882
Issue date: 2021-03-16

Topic

An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat low severity security issues Tomcat

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1785711 - CVE-2019-17563 tomcat: Session fixation when using FORM authentication

1806835 - CVE-2020-1935 tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling

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