ALAS-2023-1738

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-4132   CVE-2023-24998  

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)

ALAS-2023-1738


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1738
Advisory Release Date: 2023-04-27 16:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-05-03 18:49 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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.

New Packages:
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