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Debian DSA-1447-1 : tomcat5.5 - several vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Plugin ID 29856
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.Description
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :- CVE-2007-3382 It was discovered that single quotes (') in cookies were treated as a delimiter, which could lead to an information leak.
- CVE-2007-3385 It was discovered that the character sequence \' in cookies was handled incorrectly, which could lead to an information leak.
- CVE-2007-3386 It was discovered that the host manager servlet performed insufficient input validation, which could lead to a cross-site scripting attack.
- CVE-2007-5342 It was discovered that the JULI logging component did not restrict its target path, resulting in potential denial of service through file overwrites.
- CVE-2007-5461 It was discovered that the WebDAV servlet is vulnerable to absolute path traversal.
Solution
Upgrade the tomcat5.5 packages.The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain tomcat5.5.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.5.20-2etch1.
See Also
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3382
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3385
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3386
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5342
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 29856
File Name: debian_DSA-1447.nasl
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 1/7/2008
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat5.5, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-3382, CVE-2007-3385, CVE-2007-3386, CVE-2007-5342, CVE-2007-5461