SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tomcat (SUSE-SU-2024:1205-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193243

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1205-1 advisory.

- Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. It was possible for WebSocket clients to keep WebSocket connections open leading to increased resource consumption.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue. (CVE-2024-23672)

- Denial of Service due to improper input validation vulnerability for HTTP/2 requests in Apache Tomcat.
When processing an HTTP/2 request, if the request exceeded any of the configured limits for headers, the associated HTTP/2 stream was not reset until after all of the headers had been processed.This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M16, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.18, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.85, from 8.5.0 through 8.5.98. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M17, 10.1.19, 9.0.86 or 8.5.99 which fix the issue. (CVE-2024-24549)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193243

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1205-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/12/2024

Updated: 4/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24549

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-el-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-servlet-4_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-webapps, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23672, CVE-2024-24549

IAVA: 2024-A-0144

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1205-1

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