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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : tomcat6, tomcat7 vulnerabilities (USN-1685-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63535

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly performed certain security constraint checks in the FORM authenticator. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw with a specially crafted URI to bypass security constraint checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3546)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled requests that lack a session identifier. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to bypass the cross-site request forgery protection. (CVE-2012-4431)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled sendfile and HTTPS when the NIO connector is used. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Tomcat to stop responsing, resulting in a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-4534).

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

Solution

Update the affected libtomcat6-java and / or libtomcat7-java packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1685-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63535

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1685-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat6-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat7-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3546, CVE-2012-4431, CVE-2012-4534

USN: 1685-1