Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tomcat9 package, versions <9.0.54-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-TOMCAT9-1734791
- published 16 Oct 2021
- disclosed 14 Oct 2021
Introduced: 14 Oct 2021
CVE-2021-42340 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 tomcat9 to version 9.0.54-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9 package and not the tomcat9 package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
The fix for bug 63362 present in Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M5, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.11, 9.0.40 to 9.0.53 and 8.5.60 to 8.5.71 introduced a memory leak. The object introduced to collect metrics for HTTP upgrade connections was not released for WebSocket connections once the connection was closed. This created a memory leak that, over time, could lead to a denial of service via an OutOfMemoryError.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42340
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r83a35be60f06aca2065f188ee542b9099695d57ced2e70e0885f905c%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8097a2d1550aa78e585fc77e602b9046e6d4099d8d132497c5387784@%3Ccommits.myfaces.apache.org%3E
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10379
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-34
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5009
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8097a2d1550aa78e585fc77e602b9046e6d4099d8d132497c5387784%40%3Ccommits.myfaces.apache.org%3E