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Red Hat Developer Suite: RHSA-2010:0583-01 Important: Tomcat5 HTTP Issue

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Enhanced tomcat5 distributions rectify significant vulnerabilities in the Red Hat Development Kit, targeting weaknesses in HTTP request handling.
Updated tomcat5 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Developer Suite 3

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)
Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important HTTP issue Red Hat Developer Suite Tomcat5

References

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 Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4):
Source: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (ES v.4):
Source: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (WS v.4):
Source: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.src.rpm
noarch: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp_21rh.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0583-01
Product: Red Hat Developer Suite v.3
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0583.html
Issue date: 2010-08-02

Topic

Updated tomcat5 packages that fix one security issue are now available forRed Hat Developer Suite 3.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from theCVE link in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important HTTP issue Red Hat Developer Suite Tomcat5

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

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

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