RHEL 5 : tomcat (RHSA-2007:0871)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 26190

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

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0871

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 26190

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0871.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-common-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-server-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper-javadoc

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

CVE: CVE-2007-3382, CVE-2007-3385, CVE-2007-3386

BID: 25316

CWE: 200, 79

RHSA: 2007:0871