Debian: tomcat4 source disclosures vulnerability
Summary
A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in Apache Tomcat
4.0.x releases, which allows to use a specially crafted URL to return
the unprocessed source of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances,
a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by a
security constraint, without the need for being properly
authenticated. This is based on a variant of the exploit that was
identified as CAN-2002-1148.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 4.0.3-3woody2.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain tomcat packages.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem does not exist in the
current version 4.1.16-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat packages.
Installation Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 708 0911f7c03a0ab71133fbe95bf45d0d20
Size/MD5 checksum: 15881 de9f6f0fb39374bfe4ece1ef4824d942
Size/MD5 checksum: 1588186 2b2e0d859f7152e5225633933e6585d6
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1134258 680c67daebdd36eb879ce593e6362f3b
Size/MD5 checksum: 1167502 34f71826d8441f967e3da0ee4ab9a1be
Size/MD5 checksum: 126444 e7dbc07086a7e349474bff877342cb6d
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.