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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202012-23">
+ <title>Apache Tomcat: Information disclosure</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Apache Tomcat that allows
+ for the disclosure of sensitive information.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">tomcat</product>
+ <announced>2020-12-24</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-12-24</revised>
+ <bug>758338</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-servers/tomcat" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge" slot="8.5">8.5.60</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="ge" slot="9">9.0.40</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt" slot="8.5">8.5.60</vulnerable>
+ <vulnerable range="lt" slot="9">9.0.40</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Apache Tomcat is a Servlet-3.0/JSP-2.2 Container.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>It was discovered that Apache Tomcat could re-use an HTTP request header
+ value from the previous stream received on an HTTP/2 connection for the
+ request associated with the subsequent stream.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>A remote attacker, by sending well-timed HTTP/2 requests, could possibly
+ obtain sensitive information.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>Disable HTTP/2 support.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Apache Tomcat 8.5.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/tomcat-8.5.60:8.5"
+ </code>
+
+ <p>All Apache Tomcat 9.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/tomcat-9.0.40:9"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17527">CVE-2020-17527</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-12-23T01:20:53Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-12-24T14:11:02Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>