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HistoryMay 12, 2015 - 8:44 p.m.

tomcat6 security update

2015-05-1220:44:59
CentOS Project
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6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.948 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.2%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0991

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer
Pages (JSP) technologies.

It was discovered that the ChunkedInputFilter in Tomcat did not fail
subsequent attempts to read input after malformed chunked encoding was
detected. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Tomcat
process part of the request body as new request, or cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2014-0227)

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • Before this update, the tomcat6 init script did not try to kill the
    tomcat process if an attempt to stop it was unsuccessful, which would
    prevent tomcat from restarting properly. The init script was modified to
    correct this issue. (BZ#1207048)

All Tomcat 6 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
correct these issues. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take
effect.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-May/083267.html

Affected packages:
tomcat6
tomcat6-admin-webapps
tomcat6-docs-webapp
tomcat6-el-2.1-api
tomcat6-javadoc
tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api
tomcat6-lib
tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api
tomcat6-webapps

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0991

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.948 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.2%