Scientific Linux: Important tomcat5 Update Addresses Multiple Issues

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:01:56 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: tomcat5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: tomcat5 security update
Issue date:	2010-08-02
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-2693 CVE-2009-2696 CVE-2009-2902
 CVE-2010-2227

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)

Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.src.rpm
 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-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-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-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-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-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
tomcat5-server-lib-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
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson