Debian DSA-3843-1 : tomcat8 - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99972

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in tomcat8, 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 tomcat8 packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 8.0.14-1+deb8u9.

For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 8.5.11-2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99972

File Name: debian_DSA-3843.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:tomcat8

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: 3843

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