Medium: tomcat6

Issue Overview:

It was found that the expression language resolver evaluated expressions within a privileged code section. A malicious web application could use this flaw to bypass security manager protections. (CVE-2014-7810)

It was found that Tomcat would keep connections open after processing requests with a large enough request body. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust the pool of available connections and preventing further, legitimate connections to the Tomcat server to be made. (CVE-2014-0230)

Affected Packages:

tomcat6

Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat6 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-lib-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-webapps-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat6-6.0.44-1.3.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-0230, CVE-2014-7810

Mitre: CVE-2014-0230, CVE-2014-7810