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openSUSE Security Update : tomcat (openSUSE-2020-1051)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138983

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for tomcat fixes the following issues :

Tomcat was updated to 9.0.36 See changelog at

 - CVE-2020-11996: Fixed an issue which by sending a specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests could have triggered high CPU usage for several seconds making potentially the server unresponsive (bsc#1173389).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173389

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138983

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1051.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2020

Updated: 2/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11996

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-webapps, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-embed, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-servlet-4_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-jsvc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-el-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-docs-webapp

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11996