Issued:
2010-08-02
Updated:
2010-08-02

RHSA-2010:0580 - Important: tomcat5 security update

Synopsis

Important: tomcat5 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated tomcat5 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.

A flaw was found in the way Tomcat handled the Transfer-Encoding header in HTTP requests. A specially-crafted HTTP request could prevent Tomcat from sending replies, or cause Tomcat to return truncated replies, or replies containing data related to the requests of other users, for all subsequent HTTP requests. (CVE-2010-2227)

The Tomcat security update RHSA-2009:1164 did not, unlike the erratum text stated, provide a fix for CVE-2009-0781, a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in the examples calendar application. With some web browsers, remote attackers could use this flaw to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "time" parameter. (CVE-2009-2696)

Two directory traversal flaws were found in the Tomcat deployment process. A specially-crafted WAR file could, when deployed, cause a file to be created outside of the web root into any directory writable by the Tomcat user, or could lead to the deletion of files in the Tomcat host's work directory. (CVE-2009-2693, CVE-2009-2902)

Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.src.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.9.el5_5.ia64.rpm

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