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Scientific Linux 5.x: Moderate Tomcat Security Update for Session Hijacking

Calendar Sep 26, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate tomcat session hijacking scientific linux
Moderate: tomcat security update 
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:41:12 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for tomcat on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: tomcat security update
Issue date:	2007-09-26
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-3382 CVE-2007-3385 CVE-2007-3386

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 cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability existed in the Host Manager
Servlet. This allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web
script via crafted requests (CVE-2007-3386).

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson