SB2019070106 - OpenSUSE Linux update for tomcat 

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SB2019070106 - OpenSUSE Linux update for tomcat

Published: July 1, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019070106
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0199)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists within the HTTP/2 implementation in Apache Tomcat that accepts streams with excessive numbers of SETTINGS frames and also permits clients to keep streams open without reading/writing request/response data. A remote attacker can exhaust all available threads on the server and perform denial of service attack.


2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0221)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within SSI printenv command, when parsing URI. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Example: 

http://[host]/printenv.shtml?%3Cscript%3Ealert(%27xss%27)%3C/script%3E

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References