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

RHSA-2010:0581 - Important: tomcat5 and tomcat6 security update

Synopsis

Important: tomcat5 and tomcat6 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated tomcat5 and tomcat6 packages that fix one security issue are now available for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link 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)

Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. 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
JBoss Enterprise Web Server1x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Web Server1i386

Updated Packages

  • tomcat5-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-el-1.0-api-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.src.rpm
  • tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-parent-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-log4j-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-webapps-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-7.patch_01.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.src.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.28-9.patch_01.1.jdk6.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm

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