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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Tomcat vulnerabilities (USN-2302-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76935

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2302-1 advisory.

 David Jorm 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 consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0075)

 It was discovered that Tomcat did not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets. An attacker could use this issue with a crafted web application to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files.
 (CVE-2014-0096)

 It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain Content-Length headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw in configurations where Tomcat is behind a reverse proxy to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2014-0099)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2302-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76935

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2302-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0099

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat7-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-user, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-admin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libservlet3.0-java

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0075, CVE-2014-0096, CVE-2014-0099

BID: 67667, 67668, 67671

USN: 2302-1