Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1105
Advisory Release Date: 2018-11-07 22:12 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-11-08 23:44 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
An improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters can lead to an infinite loop in the decoder causing a Denial of Service.(CVE-2018-1336)
Affected Packages:
tomcat
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
tomcat-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-jsvc-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-lib-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-8.amzn2.noarch
src:
tomcat-7.0.76-8.amzn2.src