SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tomcat (SUSE-SU-2024:1345-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193546

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1345-1 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: Medium

ID: 193546

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1345-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/19/2024

Updated: 11/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24549

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23672

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache-commons-daemon, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-el-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache-commons-pool2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-j2ee-1_4-apis, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-annotation-1_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache-commons-dbcp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-javamail-1_4-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-servlet-2_4-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-jta-1_1-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-servlet-4_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-jaf-1_1-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-stax-1_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-jms-1_1-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-j2ee-connector-1_5-api, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:geronimo-jsp-2_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:jakarta-taglibs-standard, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

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

IAVA: 2024-A-0144-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1345-1

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