openSUSE Security Update : tomcat6 (openSUSE-SU-2013:0161-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74938

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

- fix bnc#794548 - denial of service (CVE-2012-4534)

- apache-tomcat-CVE-2012-4534.patch fixes apache#53138, apache#52858 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=1372035

- fix a minor issue in apache-tomcat-CVE-2012-4431.patch use the already initialized session variable instead of an another call req.getSesssion()

Solution

Update the affected tomcat6 packages.

See Also

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1372035

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794548

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00051.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74938

File Name: openSUSE-2013-23.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-servlet-2_5-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtcnative-1-0-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtcnative-1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-el-1_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-jsp-2_1-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtcnative-1-0-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtcnative-1-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat6-webapps, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4431, CVE-2012-4534