Fedora 22 : tomcat-7.0.68-3.fc22 (2016-e6651efbaf)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90229

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Revert sysconfig migration changes, resolves:
rhbz#1311771, rhbz#1311905 - Add /etc/tomcat/conf.d/ with shell expansion support, resolves rhbz#1293636 ----
- Load sysconfig from tomcat.conf, resolves:
rhbz#1311771, rhbz#1311905 - Set default javax.sql.DataSource factory to apache commons one, resolves rhbz#1214381 ---- - Updated to 7.0.68 - Fix symlinks from $CATALINA_HOME/lib perspective, resolves:
rhbz#1308685 - Fix tomcat user shell, resolves rhbz#1302718 - Remove log4j support. It has never been working actually. See rhbz#1236297 - Move shipped config to /etc/sysconfig/tomcat. /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf can now be used to override it with shell expansion, resolves rhbz#1293636 - Security fix for CVE-2016-0763

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311093

http://www.nessus.org/u?18ada123

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90229

File Name: fedora_2016-e6651efbaf.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tomcat, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0763