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Debian DSA-1453-1 : tomcat5 - several vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Plugin ID 29872
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.Description
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.
Solution
Upgrade the tomcat5 packages.The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain tomcat5.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.30-12etch1.
See Also
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3382
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3385
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 29872
File Name: debian_DSA-1453.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 1/8/2008
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat5, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2008