Executive Summary

Summary
Title Tomcat vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3723-1 First vendor Publication 2018-07-25
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-07-25
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat.

Software Description: - tomcat8: Servlet and JSP engine - tomcat7: Servlet and JSP engine

Details:

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled decoding certain UTF-8 strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tomcat to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1336)

It was discovered that the Tomcat WebSocket client incorrectly performed hostname verification. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to intercept sensitive information. (CVE-2018-8034)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libtomcat8-java 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.7
tomcat8 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.7

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libtomcat7-java 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.15
tomcat7 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.15

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3723-1
CVE-2018-1336, CVE-2018-8034

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat8/8.0.32-1ubuntu1.7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/7.0.52-1ubuntu0.15

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3723-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-295 Certificate Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 465
Application 3
Application 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-b1832101b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-28 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1415.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-14 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL73008537.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-10 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1385.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-09 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1105.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-2921.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-04 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1491.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4281.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-10 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1055.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-10 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1453.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-10-11 00:22:25
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-10 00:22:17
  • Multiple Updates
2018-08-03 09:21:10
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-25 21:19:09
  • First insertion