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Ubuntu: USN-1234-1 Low: tomcat7.0 XSS Vulnerability Detected

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2008
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The Debian Security Notification regarding tomcat5.5 highlights vulnerabilities linked to cross-site scripting resulting from inadequate input validation. An update is advisable.
Tt was discovered that the Host Manager web application performed insufficient input sanitising, which could lead to cross-site scripting.

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.5.26-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5.5 packages.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1277 119f28678cab927a6be1cd1e6622cb70
Size/MD5 checksum: 4796377 5775bae8fac16a0e3a2c913c4768bb37
Size/MD5 checksum: 29340 1018b80cfeeea2d4f68507be5cdee483

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1161468 170d5eb777223389eed37a8491825b42
Size/MD5 checksum: 2385122 70ce8...

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