This update for Tomcat provides the following fixes:
Feature changes:
The embedded Apache Commons DBCP component was updated to version 2.0. (bsc#1010893 fate#321029)
Security fixes:
- CVE-2016-0762: Realm Timing Attack (bsc#1007854)
- CVE-2016-5018: Security Manager Bypass (bsc#1007855)
- CVE-2016-6794: System Property Disclosure (bsc#1007857)
- CVE-2016-6796: Manager Bypass (bsc#1007858)
- CVE-2016-6797: Unrestricted Access to Global Resources (bsc#1007853)
- CVE-2016-8735: Remote code execution vulnerability in JmxRemoteLifecycleListener (bsc#1011805)
- CVE-2016-6816: HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting invalid character in HTTP requests (bsc#1011812)
Bugs fixed:
- Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in WebAppClassLoaderBase.filter().
(bsc#974407)
- Fixed a deployment error in the examples webapp by changing the context.xml
format to the new one introduced by Tomcat 8. (bsc#1004728)
- Enabled optional setenv.sh script. See section '(3.4) Using the "setenv" script'
in http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/RUNNING.txt. (bsc#1002639)
- Fixed regression caused by CVE-2016-6816.
This update supplies the new packages apache-commons-pool2 and apache-commons-dbcp in version 2
to allow tomcat to use the DBCP 2.0 interface.
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.
- Submitted by Matei Albu (mateialbu)