Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1738
Advisory Release Date: 2023-04-27 16:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-05-11 18:15 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
2023-05-11: CVE-2017-12616 was added to this advisory.
When using a VirtualDirContext with Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.80 it was possible to bypass security constraints and/or view the source code of JSPs for resources served by the VirtualDirContext using a specially crafted request. (
CVE-2017-12616)
Tomcat: Memory leak (CVE-2022-4132)
Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.5 does not limit the number of request parts to be processed resulting in the possibility of an attacker triggering a DoS with a malicious upload or series of uploads. Note that, like all of the file upload limits, the new configuration option (FileUploadBase#setFileCountMax) is not enabled by default and must be explicitly configured. (CVE-2023-24998)
Affected Packages:
tomcat7
Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat7 to update your system.
noarch:
tomcat7-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-javadoc-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-docs-webapp-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-el-2.2-api-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-log4j-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-lib-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-admin-webapps-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
tomcat7-webapps-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.noarch
src:
tomcat7-7.0.109-1.42.amzn1.src