ALASTOMCAT8.5-2024-019


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASTOMCAT8.5-2024-019
Advisory Release Date: 2024-04-10 22:27 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-04-15 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue. (CVE-2024-23672)

Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat. When processing an HTTP/2 request, if the request exceeded any of the configured limits for headers, the associated HTTP/2 stream was not reset until after all of the headers had been processed.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue. (CVE-2024-24549)


Affected Packages:

tomcat


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat8.5 Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and 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-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-admin-webapps-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-docs-webapp-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-javadoc-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-jsvc-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-jsp-2.3-api-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-lib-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-servlet-3.1-api-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-el-3.0-api-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-webapps-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    tomcat-8.5.100-1.amzn2.0.1.src