This update for tomcat fixes the following issues:
Feature changes:
The embedded Apache Commons DBCP component was updated to version 2.0.
(bsc#1010893 fate#321029)
Security fixes:
- CVE-2016-0762: Realm Timing Attack (bsc#1007854)
- CVE-2016-5018: Security Manager Bypass (bsc#1007855)
- CVE-2016-6794: System Property Disclosure (bsc#1007857)
- CVE-2016-6796: Security Manager Bypass (bsc#1007858)
- CVE-2016-6797: Unrestricted Access to Global Resources (bsc#1007853)
- CVE-2016-8735: Remote code execution vulnerability in
JmxRemoteLifecycleListener (bsc#1011805)
- CVE-2016-6816: HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting
invalid character in HTTP requests (bsc#1011812)
Bug fixes:
This update supplies the new packages apache-commons-pool2 and
apache-commons-dbcp in version 2 to allow tomcat to use the DBCP 2.0
interface.
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.