Improper Locking Affecting tomcat9 package, versions <9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
71.53% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-TOMCAT9-450945
  • published23 Jun 2019
  • disclosed21 Jun 2019

Introduced: 21 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-10072  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 tomcat9 to version 9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write in Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.19 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.40 . By not sending WINDOW_UPDATE messages for the connection window (stream 0) clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading to thread exhaustion and a DoS.

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