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
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.
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