[SECURITY] [DSA 1453-1] New tomcat5 packages fix several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory DSA-1453-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 07, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : tomcat5
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-3382 CVE-2007-3385 CVE-2007-5461

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-2007-5461

It was discovered that the WebDAV servlet is vulnerable to absolute
path traversal.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.0.30-12etch1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain tomcat5.

The unstable distribution (sid) no longer contains tomcat5.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5 packages.

Upgrade instructions

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian 4.0 (stable)

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5/tomcat5_5.0.30-12etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 30232 4d49cb48fcbd1ffde3e1ab59751ea567
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5/tomcat5_5.0.30-12etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1343 986018050a2272e753d5ef8db7994524
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5/tomcat5_5.0.30.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3594081 0bf81a5293246aa509a3bfa1afeb3920

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5/tomcat5_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 45488 cb4b3ac3e28f621d70fa4a8098e8b1ac
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5/libtomcat5-java_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3662182 f909205ef2d99e1343a2c54e06a40ba4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5/tomcat5-admin_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 402176 4811ece0563a742982ecd7ffe0cd44b1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5/tomcat5-webapps_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1121936 14ed52052f9cc573fdf0648162370745

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;