openSUSE Security Update : tomcat (openSUSE-SU-2013:1306-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75106

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Tomcat was updated to fix two security issues: CVE-2013-1976: Avoid a potential symlink race during startup of the tomcat server, where a local attacker that gaine access to the tomcat chroot could escalate privileges to root.

CVE-2013-2071:
java/org/apache/catalina/core/AsyncContextImpl.java in Apache Tomcat 7.x did not properly handle the throwing of a RuntimeException in an AsyncListener in an application, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive request information intended for other applications in opportunistic circumstances via an application that records the requests that it processes.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822177

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831117

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00013.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75106

File Name: openSUSE-2013-632.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-el-2_2-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-jsp-2_2-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-jsvc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-servlet-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-webapps, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1976, CVE-2013-2071