RHSA-2024:0125 - 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):

• tomcat: Open Redirect vulnerability in FORM authentication (CVE-2023-41080)
• tomcat: FileUpload: DoS due to accumulation of temporary files on Windows (CVE-2023-42794)
• tomcat: improper cleaning of recycled objects could lead to information leak (CVE-2023-42795)
• tomcat: incorrectly parsed http trailer headers can cause request smuggling (CVE-2023-45648)

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.

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 - 2235370 - CVE-2023-41080 tomcat: Open Redirect vulnerability in FORM authentication
• BZ - 2243749 - CVE-2023-45648 tomcat: incorrectly parsed http trailer headers can cause request smuggling
• BZ - 2243751 - CVE-2023-42794 tomcat: FileUpload: DoS due to accumulation of temporary files on Windows
• BZ - 2243752 - CVE-2023-42795 tomcat: improper cleaning of recycled objects could lead to information leak

CVEs

• CVE-2023-41080
• CVE-2023-42794
• CVE-2023-42795
• CVE-2023-45648

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate