Name | CVE-2024-38286 |
Description | Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.
This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M20, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.24, from 9.0.13 through 9.0.89. Older, unsupported versions may also be affected.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0-M21, 10.1.25, or 9.0.90, which fixes the issue.
Apache Tomcat, under certain configurations on any platform, allows an attacker to cause an OutOfMemoryError by abusing the TLS handshake process. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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tomcat10 (PTS) | bookworm (security), bookworm | 10.1.6-1+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 10.1.33-1 | fixed |
tomcat7 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 7.0.56-3+really7.0.109-1+deb8u6 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 7.0.75-1 | vulnerable |
tomcat8 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 8.0.14-1+deb8u28 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 8.5.54-0+deb9u8 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 8.5.54-0+deb9u15 | vulnerable |
tomcat9 (PTS) | buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 9.0.31-1~deb10u12 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 9.0.43-2~deb11u10 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 9.0.70-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 9.0.95-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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tomcat10 | source | (unstable) | 10.1.25-1 | | | |
tomcat7 | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
tomcat7 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
tomcat8 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
tomcat9 | source | (unstable) | 9.0.70-2 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - tomcat10 <postponed> (Minor issue, fixed along in next DSA)
[bullseye] - tomcat9 <postponed> (Minor issue, fixed along in next DSA)
https://lists.apache.org/thread/wms60cvbsz3fpbz9psxtfx8r41jl6d4s
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/3344c17cef094da4bb616f4186ed32039627b543 (10.1.25)
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/76c5cce6f0bcef14b0c21c38910371ca7d322d13 (9.0.90)
Starting with 9.0.70-2 src:tomcat9 no longer ships the server stack, using that as the fixed version
[jessie] - tomcat7 <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS)
[stretch] - tomcat8 <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS)
[jessie] - tomcat8 <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS)