rhsa-2024_3308
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2024-05-23 06:18
Modified
2024-11-06 05:57
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security and bug fix update

Notes

Topic
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. 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
Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. Security Fix(es): * Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS (CVE-2024-24549) * Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake (CVE-2024-23672) Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s): * Rebase tomcat to version 9.0.87 (JIRA:RHEL-34814)
Terms of Use
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