Important: tomcat8

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2024-23672)

Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat. When processing an HTTP/2 request, if the request exceeded any of the configured limits for headers, the associated HTTP/2 stream was not reset until after all of the headers had been processed.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. (CVE-2024-24549)

Affected Packages:

tomcat8

Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat8 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat8-log4j-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-docs-webapp-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-admin-webapps-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-lib-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-webapps-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-javadoc-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-el-3.0-api-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-servlet-3.1-api-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat8-8.5.99-1.97.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-23672, CVE-2024-24549

Mitre: CVE-2024-23672, CVE-2024-24549