openSUSE Security Update: Security update for tomcat
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3453-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1110850
Cross-References: CVE-2018-11784
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
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An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

This update for tomcat fixes the following issues:

– CVE-2018-11784: When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat returned a
redirect to a directory (e.g. redirecting to ‘/foo/’ when the user
requested ‘/foo’) a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the
redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice.
(bsc#1110850)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1276=1

Package List:

– openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

tomcat-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-admin-webapps-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-docs-webapp-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-el-3_0-api-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-embed-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-javadoc-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-jsvc-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-lib-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-servlet-3_1-api-8.0.53-18.1
tomcat-webapps-8.0.53-18.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11784.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1110850