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Red Hat Developer Suite: RHSA-2008:0195-01 Moderate Session Hijack Risk

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle Security Bulletin for WebLogic resolves several significant vulnerabilities affecting authentication processes and beyond.
Updated tomcat packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Developer Suite 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Re...

Solution

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

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

Summary

Tomcat is a servlet container for Java Servlet and Java Server Pages technologies.
Tomcat was found treating single quote characters -- ' -- as delimiters in cookies. This could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks (CVE-2007-3382).
It was reported Tomcat did not properly handle the following character sequence in a cookie: \" (a backslash followed by a double-quote). It was possible remote attackers could use this failure to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks (CVE-2007-3385).
A directory traversal vulnerability existed in the Apache Tomcat webdav servlet. This allowed remote attackers to remote authenticated users to read accessible to the local user running the tomcat process (CVE-2007-5461).
The default security policy in the JULI logging component did not restrict access permissions to files. This could be misused by untrusted web applications to access and write arbitrary files in the context of the tomcat process (CVE-2007-5342).
Users of Tomcat should update to these erratum packages, which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate directory traversal session management Red Hat Developer Suite tomcat security session hijack

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3382 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3385 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5342 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5461 https://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4):
Source:
noarch: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_11rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_11rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp_11rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp_11rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_11rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp_11rh.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0195-01
Product: Red Hat Developer Suite v.3
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0195.html
Issue date: 2008-04-28
Keywords: Security

Topic

Updated tomcat packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Developer Suite 3.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate directory traversal session management Red Hat Developer Suite tomcat security session hijack

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

247972 - CVE-2007-3382 tomcat handling of cookies

247976 - CVE-2007-3385 tomcat handling of cookie values

333791 - CVE-2007-5461 Absolute path traversal Apache Tomcat WEBDAV

427216 - CVE-2007-5342 Apache Tomcat's default security policy is too open

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