Bug#860068: tomcat8: CVE-2017-5647

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: tomcat8
Version: 8.0.14-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for tomcat8.

CVE-2017-5647[0]
|A bug in the handling of the pipelined requests when send file was
|used resulted in the pipelined request being lost when send file
|processing of the previous request completed. This could result in
|responses appearing to be sent for the wrong request. For example, a
|user agent that sent requests A, B and C could see the correct
|response for request A, the response for request C for request B and
|no response for request C.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5647
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5647

Regards,
Salvatore