ALAS-2016-778


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-778
Advisory Release Date: 2016-12-15 00:50 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:

tomcat8


Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat8 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat8-el-3.0-api-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-docs-webapp-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-admin-webapps-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-javadoc-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-servlet-3.1-api-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-webapps-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-log4j-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-lib-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.noarch

src:
    tomcat8-8.0.39-1.67.amzn1.src