Debian DSA-3842-1 : tomcat7 - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99971

Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in tomcat7, a servlet and JSP engine.

- CVE-2017-5647 Pipelined requests were processed incorrectly, which could result in some responses appearing to be sent for the wrong request.

- CVE-2017-5648 Some application listeners calls were issued against the wrong objects, allowing untrusted applications running under a SecurityManager to bypass that protection mechanism and access or modify information associated with other web applications.

Solution

Upgrade the tomcat7 packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.56-3+deb8u10.

For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.72-3.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5647

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5648

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3842

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99971

File Name: debian_DSA-3842.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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: 5/3/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5647, CVE-2017-5648

DSA: 3842