USN-5360-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities

31 March 2022

Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat.

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Releases

Packages

  • tomcat9 - Apache Tomcat 9 - Servlet and JSP engine

Details

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly performed input verification.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to intercept sensitive
information. (CVE-2020-13943, CVE-2020-17527, CVE-2021-25122, CVE-2021-30640)

It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly deserialize untrusted data.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-9484, CVE-2021-33037)

It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly validate the input length. An
attacker could possibly use this to trigger an infinite loop, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2021-25329, CVE-2021-41079)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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