Advisories » MGASA-2017-0400

Updated tomcat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Nov 2017
Modification date: 02 Nov 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-12617

Description

When running with HTTP PUTs enabled (e.g. via setting the readonly
initialization parameter of the Default servlet to false) it was
possible to upload a JSP file to the server via a specially crafted
request. This JSP could then be requested and any code it contained
would be executed by the server (CVE-2017-12617).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21933
• https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.82
• https://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_8.0.47
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12617

SRPMS

6/core

• tomcat-8.0.47-1.mga6

5/core

• tomcat-7.0.82-1.mga5