[SECURITY] [DSA 225-1] New tomcat packages fix source disclosure vulnerability

[Martin Schulze]

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 225-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 9th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : tomcat4
Vulnerability : source disclosure
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2002-1394

A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in Apache Tomcat
4.0.x releases, which allows to use a specially crafted URL to return
the unprocessed source of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances,
a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by a
security constraint, without the need for being properly
authenticated. This is based on a variant of the exploit that was
identified as CAN-2002-1148.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 4.0.3-3woody2.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain tomcat packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem does not exist in the
current version 4.1.16-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat packages.


Installation Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 708 0911f7c03a0ab71133fbe95bf45d0d20
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 15881 de9f6f0fb39374bfe4ece1ef4824d942
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1588186 2b2e0d859f7152e5225633933e6585d6

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/libtomcat4-java_4.0.3-3woody2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1134258 680c67daebdd36eb879ce593e6362f3b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4-webapps_4.0.3-3woody2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1167502 34f71826d8441f967e3da0ee4ab9a1be
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 126444 e7dbc07086a7e349474bff877342cb6d


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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