SB2018020140 - Fedora EPEL 7 update for tomcat-native
Published: February 1, 2018 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018020140
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15698)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.The weakness exists due to improper handling of fields longer than 127 bytes when parsing the AIA-Extension field of a client certificate. A remote attacker can supply a client certificate with a specially crafted AIA-Extension field, trigger a parser error and cause the OCSP check to be skipped.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.