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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-11996): Tomcat vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-11996): Tomcat vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/26/2020
Created
10/23/2020
Added
10/22/2020
Modified
11/07/2024

Description

A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests sent to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M5, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.35 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.55 could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections, the server could become unresponsive.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat9-embed-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat9-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat9
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat9-common

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