Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : tomcat5 (MDVSA-2011:030)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52035

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in tomcat5 :

When running under a SecurityManager, access to the file system is limited but web applications are granted read/write permissions to the work directory. This directory is used for a variety of temporary files such as the intermediate files generated when compiling JSPs to Servlets. The location of the work directory is specified by a ServletContect attribute that is meant to be read-only to web applications. However, due to a coding error, the read-only setting was not applied. Therefore, a malicious web application may modify the attribute before Tomcat applies the file permissions. This can be used to grant read/write permissions to any area on the file system which a malicious web application may then take advantage of. This vulnerability is only applicable when hosting web applications from untrusted sources such as shared hosting environments (CVE-2010-3718).

The HTML Manager interface displayed web application provided data, such as display names, without filtering. A malicious web application could trigger script execution by an administrative user when viewing the manager pages (CVE-2011-0013).

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The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52035

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2011-030.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 2/20/2011

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-jasper, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-jasper-eclipse, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-admin-webapps, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-jasper-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-webapps, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-server-lib, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:tomcat5-common-lib

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3718, CVE-2011-0013

BID: 46174, 46177

MDVSA: 2011:030

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