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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2024-23672: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2024-1941)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2024-23672: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2024-1941)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/13/2024
Created
06/26/2024
Added
06/24/2024
Modified
06/24/2024

Description

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.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8

References

  • ALAS-2024-1941
  • CVE-2024-23672

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