RHSA-2024:3666 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · June 6, 2024
Updated · November 2, 2026
Topic
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.
Security Fix(es):
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Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS (CVE-2024-24549)
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Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake (CVE-2024-23672)
Bug Fix(es):
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Rebase tomcat to version 9.0.87 (JIRA:RHEL-35813)
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Amend tomcat package's changelog so that fixed CVEs are mentioned explicitly (JIRA:RHEL-38548)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.