ALAS-2017-796


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-796
Advisory Release Date: 2017-02-14 12:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-02-14 12:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A bug in the error handling of the send file code for the NIO HTTP connector resulted in the current Processor object being added to the Processor cache multiple times. This in turn meant that the same Processor could be used for concurrent requests. Sharing a Processor can result in information leakage between requests including, not not limited to, session ID and the response body.


Affected Packages:

tomcat7, tomcat8


Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat7 to update your system.
Run yum update tomcat8 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-javadoc-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-webapps-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-lib-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-log4j-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-servlet-3.1-api-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-el-3.0-api-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-admin-webapps-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat8-docs-webapp-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-lib-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-log4j-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-webapps-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-javadoc-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-el-2.2-api-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-admin-webapps-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-docs-webapp-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.noarch

src:
    tomcat8-8.0.41-1.69.amzn1.src
    tomcat7-7.0.75-1.25.amzn1.src