RHSA-2018:2945

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2018-10-18 07:15 - Updated: 2026-05-14 22:24
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes Spring Boot 1.5.16 update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes. 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.
Details: Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes provides an application platform that reduces the complexity of developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized platform. This release of RHOAR Spring Boot 1.5.16 serves as a replacement for RHOAR Spring Boot 1.5.15, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. For further information, refer to the Release Notes linked to in the References section. 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.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
CVE-2018-1336

An improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters can lead to an infinite loop in the decoder causing a Denial of Service. Versions Affected: Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M9 to 9.0.7, 8.5.0 to 8.5.30, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.51, and 7.0.28 to 7.0.86.

7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Text-Only RHOAR
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes
 cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_application_runtimes:1.0 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Important
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