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Debian 4.0 DSA-1447-1 Critical: Tomcat Remote Issues Information Leak

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1448-2 outlines multiple vulnerabilities in the Apache HTTP Server and offers resolutions. Update is advised.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine

Summary


It was discovered that single quotes (') in cookies were treated
as a delimiter, which could lead to an information leak.

CVE-2007-3385

It was discovered that the character sequence \" in cookies was
handled incorrectly, which could lead to an information leak.

CVE-2007-3386

It was discovered that the host manager servlet performed
insufficient input validation, which could lead to cross-site
scripting.

CVE-2007-5342

It was discovered that the JULI logging component did not restrict
its target path, resulting in potential denial of service through
file overwrites.

CVE-2007-5461

It was discovered that the WebDAV servlet is vulnerable to absolute
path traversal.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.5.20-2etch1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain tomcat5.5.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5.5 packages.

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