RHSA-2024:3814 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security and bug fix update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · June 12, 2024

Updated · November 2, 2026

Topic

An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.

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):

Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS (CVE-2024-24549)
Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake (CVE-2024-23672)

Bug Fix(es):

Rebase tomcat to version 9.0.87 (JIRA:RHEL-34811)
Amend tomcat package's changelog so that fixed CVEs are mentioned explicitly (JIRA:RHEL-37865)