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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1491-1 tomcat8 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

02 Sep 2018

Affected Packages:

tomcat8

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1336, CVE-2018-8034.

More information:

Two security issues have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine.

• CVE-2018-1336

  An improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters can lead to an infinite loop in the decoder causing a Denial of Service.

• CVE-2018-8034

  The host name verification when using TLS with the WebSocket client was missing. It is now enabled by default.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 8.0.14-1+deb8u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.

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