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Fedora 11: 2009-11374 Critical Update for Tomcat6 Exploit Resolved

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Calendar Grey November 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The most recent patches for tomcat6 on Fedora 11 tackle a variety of security vulnerabilities and deliver essential updates for users.
Fix for CVE-2008-5515, CVE-2009-0033, CVE-2009-0580, CVE-2009-0781, and CVE-2009-0783.

Summary

Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference

Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by

Sun under the Java Community Process.

Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and

released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended

to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.

Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2008-5515, CVE-2009-0033, CVE-2009-0580, CVE-2009-0781, and CVE-2009-0783.

Change Log

* Mon Nov 9 2009 Alexander Kurtakov 0:6.0.20-1 - Update to 6.0.20. Fixes CVE-2009-0033,CVE-2009-0580.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #533903 - CVE-2009-0033 CVE-2009-0580 CVE-2009-0783 CVE-2008-5515 CVE-2009-0781 Multiple tomcat6 vulnerabilities [Fedora all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533903

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update tomcat6' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: tomcat6
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 6.0.20
Release: 1.fc11
Summary: Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 2.5/JSP 2.1 API

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