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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-525
Advisory Release Date: 2015-05-14 14:33 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-05-14 23:50 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
It was discovered that the ChunkedInputFilter in Tomcat did not fail subsequent attempts to read input after malformed chunked encoding was detected. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Tomcat process part of the request body as new request, or cause a denial of service.
Affected Packages:
tomcat6
Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat6 to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-webapps-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-lib-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.noarch
src:
tomcat6-6.0.43-1.2.amzn1.src