RHEL 5 : tomcat5 (RHSA-2012:0474)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58718

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for tomcat5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0474 advisory.

- tomcat: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS (oCERT-2011-003) (CVE-2011-4858)

- tomcat: large number of parameters DoS (CVE-2012-0022)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL tomcat5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0474.

See Also

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?d40b9866

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0474

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750521

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783359

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58718

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0474.nasl

Version: 1.31

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2012

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0022

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-common-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-server-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper-javadoc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/5/2012

Reference Information

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

BID: 51200, 51447

RHSA: 2012:0474