Fedora 9 : tomcat6-6.0.18-1.1.fc9 (2008-7977)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34185

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes several security-related issues. In addition, this release fixes several user-reported problems related to the startup scripts and file layout.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat6 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446393

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456120

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457597

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457934

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1b6d4c0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34185

File Name: fedora_2008-7977.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tomcat6, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Elliot (Apache Tomcat File Disclosure)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1232, CVE-2008-1947, CVE-2008-2370, CVE-2008-2938

BID: 29502, 30494, 30496, 30633

CWE: 22, 79

FEDORA: 2008-7977