Debian DLA-746-2 : tomcat6 regression update

high Nessus Plugin ID 96007

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The last security update introduced a regression due to the use of StringManager in the ResourceLinkFactory class. The code was removed again since it is not strictly required to resolve CVE-2016-6797.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat6 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/12/msg00028.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/tomcat6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96007

File Name: debian_DLA-746.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet2.4-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet2.5-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet2.5-java-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtomcat6-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat6-admin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat6-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat6-docs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat6-examples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat6-extras, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat6-user, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2016