Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4281-1 tomcat8 -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Aug 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 867247.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1304, CVE-2018-1305, CVE-2018-1336, CVE-2018-8034, CVE-2018-8037.

More information:

Several issues were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine. They could lead to unauthorized access to protected resources, denial-of-service, or information leak.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 8.5.14-1+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.

For the detailed security status of tomcat8 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/tomcat8