Details

The JRE Memory Leak Prevention Listener provides work-arounds for known places where the Java Runtime Environment uses the context class loader to load a singleton as this will cause a memory leak if a web application class loader happens to be the context class loader at the time. The work-around is to initialize these singletons when this listener starts as Tomcat’s common class loader is the context class loader at that time. It also provides work-arounds for known issues that can result in locked JAR files.

Rationale:

Enabling the JRE Memory Leak Prevention Listener provides work-arounds for preventing memory leaks.

Solution

Uncomment the JRE Memory Leak Prevention Listener in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml

References:

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/listeners.html#JRE_Memory_Leak_Prevention_Listener_-_org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/2506

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-6
• CSCv7|5.1

Source

• Tenable.com/audits