MGASA-2017-0117

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MGASA-2017-0117

Summary: Updated tomcat packages fix security vulnerability

Details: A bug in the handling of the pipelined requests when send file was used resulted in the pipelined request being lost when send file processing of the previous request completed. This could result in responses appearing to be sent for the wrong request. For example, a user agent that sent requests A, B and C could see the correct response for request A, the response for request C for request B and no response for request C (CVE-2017-5647). While investigating bug 60718, it was noticed that some calls to application listeners did not use the appropriate facade object. When running an untrusted application under a SecurityManager, it was therefore possible for that untrusted application to retain a reference to the request or response object and thereby access and/or modify information associated with another web application (CVE-2017-5648).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0117.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20655, http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.77