Issued:

2008-03-11

Updated:

2008-03-11

RHSA-2008:0042 - Moderate: tomcat security update

Synopsis

Moderate: tomcat security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated tomcat packages that fix security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Description

Tomcat is a servlet container for Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

A directory traversal vulnerability existed in the Apache Tomcat webdav servlet. In some configurations it allowed remote authenticated users to read files accessible to the local tomcat process. (CVE-2007-5461)

The default security policy in the JULI logging component did not restrict access permissions to files. This could be misused by untrusted web applications to access and write arbitrary files in the context of the tomcat process. (CVE-2007-5342)

Users of Tomcat should update to these errata packages, which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.

Solution

This update is available via 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/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.s390x.rpm
• tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ppc.rpm
• tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm
• tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
• tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.src.rpm
• tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.i386.rpm
• tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.3.el5_1.ia64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 333791
• This content is not included.BZ - 427216

CVEs

• CVE-2007-5461
• CVE-2007-5342

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.