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CentOS 6 : tomcat6 (CESA-2013:0964)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66965

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated tomcat6 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.

A session fixation flaw was found in the Tomcat FormAuthenticator module. During a narrow window of time, if a remote attacker sent requests while a user was logging in, it could possibly result in the attacker's requests being processed as if they were sent by the user.
(CVE-2013-2067)

Users of Tomcat are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat6 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?662de1d5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66965

File Name: centos_RHSA-2013-0964.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2013

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2067

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-el-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-lib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat6-webapps, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/20/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2067

BID: 59799

RHSA: 2013:0964