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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2018-d143ebd7cc
2018-08-30 02:49:59.851694
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Name : tomcat
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 7.0.90
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://tomcat.apache.org/
Summary : Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 3.0/JSP 2.2 API
Description :
Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by
Sun under the Java Community Process.
Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and
released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended
to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.
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Update Information:
This update includes a rebase from 7.0.86 up to 7.0.90 which resolves two CVEs
along with various other bugs/features: * rhbz#1607585 CVE-2018-8037 tomcat:
Due to a mishandling of close in NIO/NIO2 connectors user sessions can get mixed
up * rhbz#1579613 CVE-2018-8014 tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable
'supportsCredentials' for all origins
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1579611 - CVE-2018-8014 tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable
'supportsCredentials' for all origins
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579611
[ 2 ] Bug #1607582 - CVE-2018-8037 tomcat: Due to a mishandling of close in NIO/NIO2
connectors user sessions can get mixed up
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1607582
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update tomcat' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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