Important: tomcat

Issue Overview:

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue. (CVE-2024-23672)

Affected Packages:

tomcat

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

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

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-jsvc-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-lib-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
    tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.8.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-23672

Mitre: CVE-2024-23672