SciLinux: Important: tomcat SL5.x i386/x86_64 Errata 17-04-15
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:04:15 -0500Reply-To: Connie SiehSender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux From: Connie Sieh Subject: Security ERRATA Important: tomcat on SL5.x i386/x86_64Comments: To: scientific Synopsis: Important: tomcat security updateCVE: 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 vulnerabilityIt 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 cookieprocessing behavior: with this update, version 0 cookies that containvalues that must be quoted to be valid are automatically changed to version1 cookies. To reactivate the previous, but insecure behavior, add thefollowing entry to the "/etc/tomcat5/catalina.properties" file:org.apache.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie.VERSION_SWITCH=falseIt was discovered that request dispatchers did not properly normalize userrequests that have trailing query strings, allowing remote attackers tosend 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 tosend specially-crafted requests that would cause a temporary denial ofservice. (CVE-2009-0033)It was discovered that the error checking methods of certain authenticationclasses did not have sufficient error checking, allowing remote attackersto enumerate (via brute force methods) usernames registered withapplications running on Tomcat when FORM-based authentication was used.(CVE-2009-0580)A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the examples calendarapplication. With some web browsers, remote attackers could use this flawto 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. Amalicious web application running on a Tomcat instance could read or,potentially, modify the configuration and XML-based data of other webapplications deployed on the same Tomcat instance. (CVE-2009-0783)SRPM: tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.src.rpmi386: 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.rpmx86_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