gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200705-03.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200705-03">
  <title>Tomcat: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in Tomcat that allows for the
    disclosure of sensitive information.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tomcat</product>
  <announced>2007-05-01</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-05-01</revised>
  <bug>173122</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-servers/tomcat" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.5.22</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.5.22</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java
    Servlets and Java Server Pages.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Tomcat allows special characters like slash, backslash or URL-encoded
    backslash as a separator, while Apache does not.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to the vulnerable
    Tomcat server, possibly resulting in a directory traversal and read
    access to arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running
    Tomcat. Note that this vulnerability can only be exploited when using
    apache proxy modules like mod_proxy, mod_rewrite or mod_jk.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Tomcat users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/tomcat-5.5.22"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0450">CVE-2007-0450</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-04-24T19:49:54Z">
    aetius
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-25T20:54:19Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-25T20:54:45Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>