MGASA-2024-0090 - Updated tomcat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 26 Mar 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0090.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2024-23672,
     CVE-2024-24549

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.
It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open
leading to increased resource consumption. (CVE-2024-23672)
Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for
HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat. When processing an HTTP/2 request, if
the request exceeded any of the configured limits for headers, the
associated HTTP/2 stream was not reset until after all of the headers
had been processed. (CVE-2024-24549)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32980
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/13/3
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/13/4
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-23672
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-24549

SRPMS:
- 9/core/tomcat-9.0.87-1.mga9

Mageia 2024-0090: tomcat security update

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

Summary

Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption. (CVE-2024-23672) Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat. When processing an HTTP/2 request, if the request exceeded any of the configured limits for headers, the associated HTTP/2 stream was not reset until after all of the headers had been processed. (CVE-2024-24549)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32980

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/13/3

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/13/4

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-23672

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-24549

Resolution

MGASA-2024-0090 - Updated tomcat packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 9/core/tomcat-9.0.87-1.mga9

Severity
Publication date: 26 Mar 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0090.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-23672, CVE-2024-24549

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