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Gentoo: GLSA-200705-03 Low Severity: Tomcat Disclosure Risk

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Apache server on Debian Linux contains a minor vulnerability that may expose private data. Update is advised.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Tomcat that allows for the disclosure of sensitive information.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: Tomcat: Information disclosure Date: May 01, 2007 Bugs: #173122 ID: 200705-03

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in Tomcat that allows for the disclosure of sensitive information.
Background ========= Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java Servlets and Java Server Pages.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-servers/tomcat < 5.5.22 >= 5.5.22
========== Tomcat allows special characters like slash, backslash or URL-encoded backslash as a separator, while Apache does not.
Impact ===== A remote attacker ...

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