Medium: tomcat

Issue Overview:

When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to ‘/foo/’ when the user requested ‘/foo’) a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.(CVE-2018-11784)

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-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-jsvc-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-lib-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
    tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat-7.0.76-9.amzn2.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-11784

Mitre: CVE-2018-11784