Updated tomcat package fixes security vulnerabilities
Publication date: 11 Dec 2016Modification date: 11 Dec 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6816 , CVE-2016-8735
Description
The code that parsed the HTTP request line permitted invalid characters. This could be exploited, in conjunction with a proxy that also permitted the invalid characters but with a different interpretation, to inject data into the HTTP response. By manipulating the HTTP response the attacker could poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack and/or obtain sensitive information from requests other then their own (CVE-2016-6816). The JmxRemoteLifecycleListener was not updated to take account of Oracle's fix for CVE-2016-3427. Therefore, Tomcat installations using this listener remained vulnerable to a similar remote code execution vulnerability. This issue has been rated as important rather than critical due to the small number of installations using this listener and that it would be highly unusual for the JMX ports to be accessible to an attacker even when the listener is used (CVE-2016-8735).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19828
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/22/16
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/22/17
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.73
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6816
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8735
SRPMS
5/core
- tomcat-7.0.73-1.mga5