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Debian DSA-3614-1 : tomcat7 - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91925

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload, a package to make it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to servlets and web applications. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw by sending file upload requests that cause the HTTP server using the Apache Commons Fileupload library to become unresponsive, preventing the server from servicing other requests.

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

Solution

Upgrade the tomcat7 packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.0.56-3+deb8u3.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/tomcat7

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3614

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91925

File Name: debian_DSA-3614.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2016

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3092

DSA: 3614