Debian DLA-529-1 : tomcat7 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91835

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in Commons FileUpload that occurred when the length of the multipart boundary was just below the size of the buffer (4096 bytes) used to read the uploaded file.
This caused the file upload process to take several orders of magnitude longer than if the boundary was the typical tens of bytes long.

Apache Tomcat uses a package renamed copy of Apache Commons FileUpload to implement the file upload requirements of the Servlet specification and was therefore also vulnerable to the denial of service vulnerability.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.28-4+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91835

File Name: debian_DLA-529.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-user, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-examples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtomcat7-java, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-admin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-docs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet3.0-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet3.0-java-doc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3092

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