Important: tomcat7

Issue Overview:

2023-05-11: CVE-2017-12616 was added to this advisory.

When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request. (
CVE-2017-12616)

Tomcat: Memory leak (CVE-2022-4132)

Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.5 does not limit the number of request parts to be processed resulting in the possibility of an attacker triggering a DoS with a malicious upload or series of uploads. Note that, like all of the file upload limits, the new configuration option (FileUploadBase#setFileCountMax) is not enabled by default and must be explicitly configured. (CVE-2023-24998)

Affected Packages:

tomcat7

Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat7 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat7-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-javadoc-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-docs-webapp-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-el-2.2-api-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-log4j-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-lib-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-admin-webapps-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat7-webapps-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat7-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-12616, CVE-2022-4132, CVE-2023-24998

Mitre: CVE-2017-12616, CVE-2022-4132, CVE-2023-24998