ALAS-2017-853

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5664  

Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism:A vulnerability was discovered in the error page mechanism in Tomcat's DefaultServlet implementation. A crafted HTTP request could cause undesired side effects, possibly including the removal or replacement of the custom error page. (CVE-2017-5664)

ALAS-2017-853


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-853
Advisory Release Date: 2017-07-06 17:24 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-07-06 22:52 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2017-5664 

Issue Overview:

Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism:
A vulnerability was discovered in the error page mechanism in Tomcat's DefaultServlet implementation. A crafted HTTP request could cause undesired side effects, possibly including the removal or replacement of the custom error page. (CVE-2017-5664)


Affected Packages:

tomcat7


Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat7 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat7-webapps-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-lib-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-javadoc-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-log4j-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-docs-webapp-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-admin-webapps-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-el-2.2-api-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.noarch

src:
    tomcat7-7.0.78-1.27.amzn1.src