RHSA-2023:7065 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

• Apache Commons FileUpload: FileUpload DoS with excessive parts (CVE-2023-24998)
• tomcat: not including the secure attribute causes information disclosure (CVE-2023-28708)
• tomcat: Fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete (CVE-2023-28709)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2172298 - CVE-2023-24998 Apache Commons FileUpload: FileUpload DoS with excessive parts
• BZ - 2173874 - Tomcat installs older java even though newer java is installed
• BZ - 2180856 - CVE-2023-28708 tomcat: not including the secure attribute causes information disclosure
• BZ - 2189676 - Missing Tomcat POM files in RHEL 8.9
• BZ - 2210321 - CVE-2023-28709 tomcat: Fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete

CVEs

• CVE-2023-24998
• CVE-2023-28708
• CVE-2023-28709

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.9_release_notes/index