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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-13934: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2020-1409)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-13934: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2020-1409)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/14/2020
Created
08/01/2020
Added
07/30/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

An h2c direct connection to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M6, 9.0.0.M5 to 9.0.36 and 8.5.1 to 8.5.56 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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8

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