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Hello,

Am 04.05.20 um 21:58 schrieb Gianluca Bonetti:
> Package: tomcat8
> Version: 8.5.54-0+deb9u1
> Severity: grave
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Last tomcat8 upgrade, fixing CVE-2020-1938, is breaking the
> functionalities of Tomcat AJP connector
> in standard setup.
> The updated tomcat8 version implements 'secretRequired' parameter in
> <Connector> tag for config file
> /etc/tomcat8/server.xml (attached by reportbut) and the implicit default
> for 'secretRequired' is true.
> The default value is not explicitly marked in the standard server.xml,
> nor documented there.

[...]

The security update requires a manual update to your Tomcat 8
configuration, and only in specific cases. Debian cannot fix that
automatically. The Tomcat 8 documentation is relevant here:

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/ajp.html

This is not a Debian bug and it works as intended.



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