DSA-3609-1 tomcat8 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3609-1 tomcat8 -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Jun 2016

Affected Packages:

tomcat8

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5174, CVE-2015-5345, CVE-2015-5346, CVE-2015-5351, CVE-2016-0706, CVE-2016-0714, CVE-2016-0763, CVE-2016-3092.

More information:

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, which may result in information disclosure, the bypass of CSRF protections, bypass of the SecurityManager or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 8.0.14-1+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 8.0.36-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.