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Ubuntu 25.04: USN-7562-1 critical: Tomcat various issues

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Several significant security flaws in Tomcat have been addressed across different Ubuntu releases, safeguarding against potential data breaches and service disruptions.
Several security issues were fixed in tomcat8, tomcat9, tomcat10.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in tomcat8, tomcat9, tomcat10.

Software Description:

- tomcat9: Servlet and JSP engine

- tomcat10: Servlet and JSP engine

- tomcat8: Servlet and JSP engine

Details:

It was discovered that Tomcat did not include the secure attribute for

session cookies when using the RemoteIpFilter with requests from a reverse

proxy. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive

information. This issue was fixed for tomcat8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and for

tomcat9 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10, and Ubuntu 25.04.

(CVE-2023-28708)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly recycled certain objects, which

could lead to information leaking from one request to the next. An attacker

could potentially use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue was

fixed for tomcat8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS  and for tomcat9 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS,

Ubuntu 24.10, and  Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2023-42795)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly hand...

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Topics Covered

security advisory update DoS tomcat session management information leakage

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 25.04
      libtomcat9-java                 9.0.70-2ubuntu1.25.04.2

Ubuntu 24.10
      libtomcat9-java                 9.0.70-2ubuntu1.24.10.2

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
      libtomcat10-java                10.1.16-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                      Available with Ubuntu Pro
      libtomcat9-java                 9.0.70-2ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                      Available with Ubuntu Pro

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7562-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory update DoS tomcat session management information leakage

Package Information

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