Is Tomcat Bug 56561 fixed in rhel 7 ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 7.x
  • Tomcat 7

Issue

  • We are using tomcat 7 shipped as part of Redhat Enterprise Linux to host webapplications. The webapplication runs into a bug which has been fixed in a newer tomcat 7 release (7.0.55, RHEL7 ships with 7.0.54).See [1]
  • When it expect Redhat to include bug fixes from upstream tomcat releases?
  • The latest release (7.0.57) is from 2014-11-11, the 7.0.54 release is from 2014-05-22,See [2]:

[1] https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56561
[2] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html

Resolution

  • Await a fix in a later update

Root Cause

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