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HistoryJan 25, 2016 - 5:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2016:22545) Moderate: tomcat6 security and bug fix update

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

It was found that the expression language resolver evaluated expressions
within a privileged code section. A malicious web application could use
this flaw to bypass security manager protections. (CVE-2014-7810)

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, using a New I/O (NIO) connector in the Apache Tomcat 6
    servlet resulted in a large memory leak. An upstream patch has been applied
    to fix this bug, and the memory leak no longer occurs. (BZ#1301646)

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