Critical Tomcat Security Advisory USN-6880-1 for Ubuntu Users
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary: Tomcat could allow unintended access to network services. Software Description: - tomcat9: Apache Tomcat 9 - Servlet and JSP engine - tomcat8: Apache Tomcat 8 - Servlet and JSP engine Details: Sam Shahsavar discovered that Apache Tomcat did not properly reject HTTP requests with an invalid Content-Length header. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
Update Instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libtomcat9-java 9.0.58-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro tomcat9 9.0.58-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libtomcat9-java 9.0.31-1ubuntu0.5 tomcat9 9.0.31-1ubuntu0.5 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libtomcat8-java 8.5.39-1ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro libtomcat9-java 9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro tomcat8 8.5.39-1ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro tomcat9 9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6880-1
CVE-2022-42252
Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat9/9.0.31-1ubuntu0.5