ALAS-2016-776


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-776
Advisory Release Date: 2016-12-15 00:41 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-12-15 23:49 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

CVE-2016-6816 tomcat: HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting invalid character in HTTP requests

CVE-2016-8735 tomcat: Remote code execution vulnerability in JmxRemoteLifecycleListener


Affected Packages:

tomcat6


Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat6 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-webapps-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-lib-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat6-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.noarch

src:
    tomcat6-6.0.48-1.8.amzn1.src