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(RHSA-2017:2247) Low: tomcat security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Description

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: tomcat (7.0.76). (BZ#1414895) Security Fix(es): * The Realm implementations did not process the supplied password if the supplied user name did not exist. This made a timing attack possible to determine valid user names. Note that the default configuration includes the LockOutRealm which makes exploitation of this vulnerability harder. (CVE-2016-0762) * It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications. (CVE-2016-5018) * It was discovered that when a SecurityManager was configured, Tomcat's system property replacement feature for configuration files could be used by a malicious web application to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties that should not be visible. (CVE-2016-6794) * It was discovered that a malicious web application could bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet. (CVE-2016-6796) * It was discovered that it was possible for a web application to access any global JNDI resource whether an explicit ResourceLink had been configured or not. (CVE-2016-6797) Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
RedHat 7 tomcat-webapps 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-javadoc 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-lib 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-docs-webapp 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-el-2.2-api 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-jsp-2.2-api 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-servlet-3.0-api 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-jsvc 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat 7.0.76-2.el7
RedHat 7 tomcat-admin-webapps 7.0.76-2.el7

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