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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : tomcat6, tomcat7 vulnerabilities (USN-1841-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 66670
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain requests submitted using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Tomcat server to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-3544)It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain authentication requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to inject a request that would get executed with a victim's credentials. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-2067)
It was discovered that Tomcat sometimes exposed elements of a previous request to the current request. This could allow a remote attacker to possibly obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04. (CVE-2013-2071).
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 and / or libtomcat7-java packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 66670
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1841-1.nasl
Version: 1.22
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 5/29/2013
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: Medium
Score: 6.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat6-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat7-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts
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: 5/28/2013
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-3544, CVE-2013-2067, CVE-2013-2071
USN: 1841-1