RHEL 5 : tomcat (RHSA-2007:0871)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 26190
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VPR Score: 3.8
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated tomcat packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Tomcat is a servlet container for Java Servlet and Java Server Pages technologies.
Tomcat was found treating single quote characters -- ' -- as delimiters in cookies. This could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks (CVE-2007-3382).
It was reported Tomcat did not properly handle the following character sequence in a cookie: \' (a backslash followed by a double-quote). It was possible remote attackers could use this failure to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks (CVE-2007-3385).
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability existed in the Host Manager Servlet. This allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via crafted requests (CVE-2007-3386).
Users of Tomcat should update to these erratum packages, which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-3382
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-3385
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-3386
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 26190
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0871.nasl
Version: 1.27
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 9/26/2007
Updated: 1/14/2021
Dependencies: 12634
Risk Information
Risk Factor: Medium
VPR Score: 3.8
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-common-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-server-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-webapps, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2007
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2007
Reference Information
BID: 25316