SB2025011801 - Debian update for tomcat10

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-34750)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when handling HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can initiate multiple HTTP/2 connections to the server that are remain open and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38286)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources during the TLS handshake process. A remote attacker can initiate multiple TLS connections, trigger memory exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-50379)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to missing access restrictions to the default servlet. If the default servlet is write enabled (readonly initialisation parameter set to the non-default value of false) for a case insensitive file system, concurrent read and upload under load of the same file can bypass Tomcat's case sensitivity checks and cause an uploaded file to be treated as a JSP leading to remote code execution.

4) Improper Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52316)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing authentication requests. If Tomcat was configured to use a custom Jakarta Authentication (formerly JASPIC) ServerAuthContext component which may throw an exception during the authentication process without explicitly setting an HTTP status to indicate failure, the authentication may not have failed, allowing the user to bypass the authentication process.

5) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-54677)

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

The vulnerability exists due to the examples web application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

6) Permissions, privileges, and access controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56337)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to incomplete mitigation for #VU101814(CVE-2024-50379) on a case insensitive file system with the default servlet write enabled (readonly initialisation parameter set to the non-default value of false). A remote attacker can upload malicious files to the server and execute them compromising the system.

The mitigation bypass depends on the version of Java used on the system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00007.html