Scientific Linux: Tomcat Important Security Update Errata 17-04-15

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:04:15 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: tomcat on SL5.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Important: tomcat security update
CVE: CVE-2007-5333 Improve cookie parsing for tomcat5
 CVE-2009-0781 tomcat: XSS in Apache Tomcat calendar application
 CVE-2009-0033 tomcat6 Denial-Of-Service with AJP connection
 CVE-2009-0580 tomcat6 Information disclosure in authentication classes
 CVE-2009-0783 tomcat XML parser information disclosure
 CVE-2008-5515 tomcat request dispatcher information disclosure vulnerability

It was discovered that a prior security errata for Tomcat version
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5 did not address all possible flaws in the
way Tomcat handles certain characters and character sequences in cookie
values. A remote attacker could use this flaw to obtain sensitive
information, such as session IDs, and then use this information for
session hijacking attacks. (CVE-2007-5333)

Note: The fix for the CVE-2007-5333 flaw changes the default cookie
processing behavior: with this update, version 0 cookies that contain
values that must be quoted to be valid are automatically changed to version
1 cookies. To reactivate the previous, but insecure behavior, add the
following entry to the "/etc/tomcat5/catalina.properties" file:

org.apache.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie.VERSION_SWITCH=false

It was discovered that request dispatchers did not properly normalize user
requests that have trailing query strings, allowing remote attackers to
send specially-crafted requests that would cause an information leak.
(CVE-2008-5515)

A flaw was found in the way the Tomcat AJP (Apache JServ Protocol)
connector processes AJP connections. An attacker could use this flaw to
send specially-crafted requests that would cause a temporary denial of
service. (CVE-2009-0033)

It was discovered that the error checking methods of certain authentication
classes did not have sufficient error checking, allowing remote attackersto enumerate (via brute force methods) usernames registered with
applications running on Tomcat when FORM-based authentication was used.
(CVE-2009-0580)

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found 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-2009-0781)

It was discovered that web applications containing their own XML parserscould replace the XML parser Tomcat uses to parse configuration files. A
malicious web application running on a Tomcat instance could read or,
potentially, modify the configuration and XML-based data of other web
applications deployed on the same Tomcat instance. (CVE-2009-0783)

SRPM:

 	tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.src.rpm

i386:
 	tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 	tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386.rpm

x86_64:
 	tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
 	tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson