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Red Hat: CVE-2018-1336: Important: tomcat security update (RHSA-2018:2921)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-1336: Important: tomcat security update (RHSA-2018:2921)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/02/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/17/2018
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

An improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters can lead to an infinite loop in the decoder causing a Denial of Service. Versions Affected: Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M9 to 9.0.7, 8.5.0 to 8.5.30, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.51, and 7.0.28 to 7.0.86.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-admin-webapps
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-docs-webapp
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-el-2-2-api
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-javadoc
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-jsp-2-2-api
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-jsvc
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-lib
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-servlet-3-0-api
  • redhat-upgrade-tomcat-webapps

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