openSUSE 10 Security Update : tomcat55 (tomcat55-5547)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34168

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of tomcat fixes another directory traversal bug which occurs when allowLinking and UTF-8 are enabled. (CVE-2008-2938)

Solution

Update the affected tomcat55 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34168

File Name: suse_tomcat55-5547.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/11/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

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:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-jsp-2_0-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-common-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-jsp-2_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-servlet-2_4-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-servlet-2_4-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-server-lib, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-jasper-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat55-jasper

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Elliot (Apache Tomcat File Disclosure)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2938

CWE: 22

Detections

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