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VPR Score: 6.1
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
Description
Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine.
CVE-2020-13934
An h2c direct connection to Apache Tomcat did not release the HTTP/1.1 processor after the upgrade to HTTP/2. If a sufficient number of such requests were made, an OutOfMemoryException could occur leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2020-13935
The payload length in a WebSocket frame was not correctly validated in Apache Tomcat. Invalid payload lengths could trigger an infinite loop.
Multiple requests with invalid payload lengths could lead to a denial of service.
For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 8.5.54-0+deb9u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.
For the detailed security status of tomcat8 please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/tomcat8
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.