Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1192
Advisory Release Date: 2019-04-04 22:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-04-17 17:02 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat returned a redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.(CVE-2018-11784)
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-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-jsvc-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-lib-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-9.amzn2.noarch
src:
tomcat-7.0.76-9.amzn2.src