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Red Hat 7.7 Low Advisory: RHSA-2021:1030-01 Tomcat Session Fixation

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat improvements for tomcat bolster security by addressing minor severity vulnerabilities such as session fixation and additional concerns.
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat low severity red hat enterprise session fixation http request smuggling tomcat update

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. 7.7):
Source: tomcat-7.0.76-12.el7_7.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7):
noarch: tomcat-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsvc-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-lib-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: tomcat-7.0.76-12.el7_7.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-lib-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.7):
noarch: tomcat-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-12.el7_7.noarch.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1030-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1030
Issue date: 2021-03-30

Topic

An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7Extended 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat low severity red hat enterprise session fixation http request smuggling tomcat update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - 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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