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Red Hat Enterprise: RHSA-2010:0580-01 Important Tomcat5 Security Issues

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2010
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Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: tomcat5 security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0580-0
Updated tomcat5 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.
A flaw was found in the way Tomcat handled the Transfer-Encoding header in HTTP requests. A specially-crafted HTTP request could prevent Tomcat from sending replies, or cause Tomcat to return truncated replies, or replies containing data related to the requests of other users, for all subsequent HTTP requests. (CVE-2010-2227)
The Tomcat security update RHSA-2009:1164 did not, unlike the erratum text stated, provide a fix for CVE-2009-0781, a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in the examples calendar application. With some web browsers, remote attackers could use this flaw to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "time" parameter. (CVE-2009-2696)
Two directory traversal flaws were found in the Tomcat deployment process. A specially-crafted WAR file could, when deployed, cause a file to be created outside of the web root into any directory writable by the Tomcat user, or could lead to the deletion of files in the Tomcat host's work directory. (CVE-2009-2693, CVE-2009-2902)
Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2693 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2696 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2902 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2227 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: tomcat5-debuginfo-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
x86_64: tomcat5-debuginfo-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-debuginfo-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
x86_64: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-debuginfo-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0580-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0580.html
Issue date: 2010-08-02

Topic

Updated tomcat5 packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eachvulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak red hat important tomcat file deletion http issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

559738 - CVE-2009-2693 tomcat: unexpected file deletion and/or alteration

559761 - CVE-2009-2902 tomcat: unexpected file deletion in work directory

612799 - CVE-2010-2227 tomcat: information leak vulnerability in the handling of 'Transfer-Encoding' header

616717 - CVE-2009-2696 tomcat: missing fix for CVE-2009-0781

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