Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-679
Advisory Release Date: 2016-03-29 15:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-03-29 15:30 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
ResourceLinkFactory.setGlobalContext() is a public method and was discovered to be accessible by web applications running under a security manager without any checks. This allowed a malicious web application to inject a malicious global context that could in turn be used to disrupt other web applications and/or read and write data owned by other web applications. (CVE-2016-0763)
A session fixation vulnerability was discovered that might allow remote attackers to hijack web sessions by leveraging use of a requestedSessionSSL field for an unintended request when different session settings are used for deployments of multiple versions of the same web application. (CVE-2015-5346)
The Manager and Host Manager applications were discovered to establish sessions and send CSRF tokens for arbitrary new requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism by using a token. (CVE-2015-5351)
The session-persistence implementation was discovered to mishandle session attributes, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a web application that places a crafted object in a session. (CVE-2016-0714)
It was discovered that org.apache.catalina.manager.StatusManagerServlet was not placed on the org/apache/catalina/core/RestrictedServlets.properties list, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended SecurityManager restrictions and read arbitrary HTTP requests, and consequently discover session ID values, via a crafted web application. (CVE-2016-0706)
Affected Packages:
tomcat8
Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat8 to update your system.
noarch:
tomcat8-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-javadoc-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-docs-webapp-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-servlet-3.1-api-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-admin-webapps-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-lib-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-webapps-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-log4j-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
tomcat8-el-3.0-api-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.noarch
src:
tomcat8-8.0.32-1.59.amzn1.src