Fedora 25: tomcat Security Update
Summary
Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by
Sun under the Java Community Process.
Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and
released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended
to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.
Update Information:
This updates includes a rebase from tomcat 8.0.38 up to 8.0.39 which resolves multiple CVEs: * \#1397493 - CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6817 CVE-2016-8735 tomcat: various flaws
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1397493 - CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6817 CVE-2016-8735 tomcat: various flaws [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397493
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade tomcat' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html