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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : tomcat6 vulnerabilities (USN-1359-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57933

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly performed certain caching and recycling operations. A remote attacker could use this flaw to obtain read access to IP address and HTTP header information in certain cases. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 11.10.
(CVE-2011-3375)

It was discovered that Tomcat computed hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service by sending many crafted parameters. (CVE-2011-4858)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled parameters. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service by sending requests with a large number of parameters and values. (CVE-2012-0022).

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

Solution

Update the affected libtomcat6-java package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1359-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57933

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1359-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat6-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3375, CVE-2011-4858, CVE-2012-0022

BID: 51200, 51442, 51447

USN: 1359-1