openSUSE 10 Security Update : tomcat55 (tomcat55-6369)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42037

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of tomcat fixes several vulnerabilities :

- CVE-2008-5515: RequestDispatcher usage can lead to information leakage

- CVE-2009-0033: denial of service via AJP connection

- CVE-2009-0580: some authentication classes allow user enumeration

- CVE-2009-0781: XSS bug in example application cal2.jsp

- CVE-2009-0783: replacing XML parser leads to information leakage Additionally, non-security bugs were fixed.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat55 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42037

File Name: suse_tomcat55-6369.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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: 7/23/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5515, CVE-2009-0033, CVE-2009-0580, CVE-2009-0781, CVE-2009-0783

CWE: 20, 200, 22, 79