CentOS 6 : tomcat6 (CESA-2016:0492)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90121

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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 and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security 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.

It was found that the expression language resolver evaluated expressions within a privileged code section. A malicious web application could use this flaw to bypass security manager protections. (CVE-2014-7810)

This update also fixes the following bug :

* Previously, using a New I/O (NIO) connector in the Apache Tomcat 6 servlet resulted in a large memory leak. An upstream patch has been applied to fix this bug, and the memory leak no longer occurs.
(BZ#1301646)

All Tomcat 6 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat6 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90121

File Name: centos_RHSA-2016-0492.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 3/24/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7810

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7810

RHSA: 2016:0492

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