openSUSE 10 Security Update : tomcat5 (tomcat5-2985)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27470

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Certain characters of the URL were not properly filtered. This allowed directory reverse traversal attacks to access the web-root of tomcat.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat5 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27470

File Name: suse_tomcat5-2985.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat5-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat5-webapps, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2007

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