| Name | CVE-2018-1336 |
| Description | An improper handing of overflow in the UTF-8 decoder with supplementary characters can lead to an infinite loop in the decoder causing a Denial of Service. Versions Affected: Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M9 to 9.0.7, 8.5.0 to 8.5.30, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.51, and 7.0.28 to 7.0.86. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1491-1, DSA-4281-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| tomcat7 (PTS) | jessie | 7.0.56-3+deb8u11 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 7.0.56-3+really7.0.91-1 | fixed | |
| stretch | 7.0.75-1 | fixed | |
| tomcat8 (PTS) | jessie | 8.0.14-1+deb8u11 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 8.0.14-1+deb8u14 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 8.5.14-1+deb9u3 | fixed | |
| tomcat9 (PTS) | buster, sid | 9.0.16-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tomcat7 | source | (unstable) | 7.0.72-3 | medium | ||
| tomcat7 | source | jessie | 7.0.56-3+really7.0.88-1 | medium | ||
| tomcat8 | source | (unstable) | 8.5.31-1 | medium | ||
| tomcat8 | source | jessie | 8.0.14-1+deb8u13 | medium | DLA-1491-1 | |
| tomcat8 | source | stretch | 8.5.14-1+deb9u3 | medium | DSA-4281-1 | |
| tomcat8.0 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | ||
| tomcat9 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
- tomcat9 <not-affected> (Fixed before initial upload to Debian)
tomcat8.0 builds only tomcat8.0-user and libtomcat8.0-java
Since 7.0.72-3, src:tomcat7 only builds the Servlet API
https://svn.apache.org/r1830373 (9.0.x)
https://svn.apache.org/r1830374 (8.5.x)
https://svn.apache.org/r1830375 (8.0.x)
https://svn.apache.org/r1830376 (7.0.x)