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SUSE: 2018:1847-1 Moderate: Tomcat6 Web Application Update

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SUSE Security Update for nginx addresses multiple vulnerabilities carrying a moderate severity label, improving application safety.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for tomcat6 fixes the following security issues: - : The error page mechanism of the Java Servlet Specification requires that, when an error occurs and an error page is configured for the error that occurred, the original request and response are forwarded to the error page. This means that the request is presented to the error page with the original HTTP method. If the error page is a static file, expected behaviour is to serve content of the file as if processing a GET request, regardless of the actual HTTP method. The Default Servlet in Tomcat did not do this. Depending on the original request this could lead to unexpected and undesirable results for static error pages including, if the DefaultServlet is configured to permit writes, the replacement or removal of the custom error page (bsc#1042910).

References

#1042910 #1082480

Cross- CVE-2017-5664 CVE-2018-1304

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5664.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1304.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042910

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082480

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1847-1
Rating: moderate

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