SB2019071903 - OpenSUSE Linux update for tomcat 



SB2019071903 - OpenSUSE Linux update for tomcat

Published: July 19, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019071903
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.