Issued:
2011-12-20
Updated:
2011-12-20

RHSA-2011:1845 - Moderate: tomcat5 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: tomcat5 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

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 moderate 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.

It was found that web applications could modify the location of the Tomcat host's work directory. As web applications deployed on Tomcat have read and write access to this directory, a malicious web application could use this flaw to trick Tomcat into giving it read and write access to an arbitrary directory on the file system. (CVE-2010-3718)

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the Manager application, used for managing web applications on Apache Tomcat. A malicious web application could use this flaw to conduct an XSS attack, leading to arbitrary web script execution with the privileges of victims who are logged into and viewing Manager application web pages. (CVE-2011-0013)

Multiple flaws were found in the way Tomcat handled HTTP DIGEST authentication. These flaws weakened the Tomcat HTTP DIGEST authentication implementation, subjecting it to some of the weaknesses of HTTP BASIC authentication, for example, allowing remote attackers to perform session replay attacks. (CVE-2011-1184)

A flaw was found in the Tomcat MemoryUserDatabase. If a runtime exception occurred when creating a new user with a JMX client, that user's password was logged to Tomcat log files. Note: By default, only administrators have access to such log files. (CVE-2011-2204)

Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct 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.https://access.redhat.com/kb/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

  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.src.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
  • tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.s390x.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ia64.rpm
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.i386.rpm
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.ppc.rpm
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.22.el5_7.x86_64.rpm

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