Various vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat Servlet and
JSP engine, resulting in denial of service, cross-site scripting,
information disclosure and WAR file traversal. Further details on the
individual security issues can be found at
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.5.26-5lenny2.
The stable distribution (squeeze) no longer contains tomcat5.5. tomcat6
is already fixed.
The unstable distribution (sid) no longer contains tomcat5.5. tomcat6
is already fixed.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5.5 packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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