Security Advisory tomcat security update for Stronghold

Advisory: RHSA-2003:075-03
Type: Security Advisory
Severity: Important
Issued on: 2003-04-09
Last updated on: 2003-04-09
Affected Products: Red Hat Stronghold for Enterprise Linux
OVAL: N/A
CVEs (cve.mitre.org): CVE-2002-1394

Details

Updated tomcat packages are now available for Stronghold 4.0 to
close a second JSP source code exposure vulnerability.

Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
A source code exposure vulnerability has been found that affects Tomcat
versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.5 and 4.1.0 through 4.1.12, in a variant of
the issue addressed in RHSA-2002:218.

Using a carefully crafted request, a remote attacker can read the source
code of any deployed JSP file.

The previous erratum for Stronghold on Advanced Server, RHSA-2002:218,
contained Tomcat 4.0.5 and is therefore susceptible to this vulnerability.

All users are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages containing
Tomcat version 4.0.6 which is not vulnerable to this issue.


Solution

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

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Updated packages

Red Hat Stronghold for Enterprise Linux

SRPMS:
tomcat-4.0.6-2.src.rpm     0a47d1437290829d49bca8c179415684
 
IA-32:
tomcat-4.0.6-2.noarch.rpm     08880454c7cf5a6680806b803bec1b6c
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

References


Keywords

servlet, Stronghold, Tomcat


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