Synopsis
Important: tomcat security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.
Security Fix(es):
- tomcat: A bug in the UTF-8 decoder can lead to DoS (CVE-2018-1336)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x
Fixes
- BZ - 1607591 - CVE-2018-1336 tomcat: A bug in the UTF-8 decoder can lead to DoS
CVEs
References
Vulmon