This update for tomcat6 fixes the following issues:
Tomcat was updated to version 6.0.53:
The full changelog is:
<a href=“http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html”>http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html</a>
Security issues fixed:
- CVE-2017-5647: A bug in the handling of pipelined requests could lead to
information disclosure (bsc#1036642)
- CVE-2016-8745: Regression in the error handling methods could lead to
information disclosure (bsc#1015119)
- 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)
- CVE-2016-6797: Unrestricted Access to Global Resources (bsc#1007853)
- CVE-2016-6796: Manager Bypass (bsc#1007858)
- CVE-2016-6794: System Property Disclosure (bsc#1007857)
- CVE-2016-5018: Security Manager Bypass (bsc#1007855)
- CVE-2016-0762: Realm Timing Attack (bsc#1007854)
- CVE-2016-5388: an arbitrary HTTP_PROXY environment variable might allow
remote attackers to redirect outbound HTTP traffic (bsc#988489)