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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2016:0865-1 Important: Tomcat Session Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2016
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openSUSE Security Update addresses 7 vulnerabilities in tomcat, featuring critical patches for remote access issues and session management headers.
An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for tomcat fixes the following issues:

Tomcat 8 was updated from 8.0.23 to 8.0.32, to fix bugs and security

issues.

Fixed security issues:

* CVE-2015-5174: Directory traversal vulnerability in RequestUtil.java in

Apache Tomcat allowed remote authenticated users to bypass intended

SecurityManager restrictions and list a parent directory via a /..

(slash dot dot) in a pathname used by a web application in a

getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePaths call, as

demonstrated by the $CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory. (bsc#967967)

* CVE-2015-5346: Session fixation vulnerability in Apache Tomcat when

different session settings are used for deployments of multiple versions

of the same web application, might have allowed remote attackers to

hijack web sessions by leveraging use of a requestedSessionSSL field

for an unintended request, related to CoyoteAdapter.java and

Request.java. (bsc#967814)

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security advisory directory traversal important tomcat session hijacking CSRF issue openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-384=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

tomcat-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-admin-webapps-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-docs-webapp-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-el-3_0-api-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-embed-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-javadoc-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-jsvc-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-lib-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-servlet-3_1-api-8.0.32-5.1

tomcat-webapps-8.0.32-5.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5174.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5345.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5346.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5351.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0706.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0714.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0763.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967812

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967814

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967815

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967964

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967965

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967966

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967967

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0865-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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