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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1593-1] New tomcat5.5 packages cross-site scripting

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Mon Jun 9 22:10:12 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1593-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
    June 09, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : tomcat5.5
    Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1947

    Tt was discovered that the Host Manager web application performed
    insufficient input sanitising, which could lead to cross-site scripting.

    For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 5.5.20-2etch3.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 5.5.26-3.

    We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5.5 packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    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 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1277 119f28678cab927a6be1cd1e6622cb70
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4796377 5775bae8fac16a0e3a2c913c4768bb37
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 29340 1018b80cfeeea2d4f68507be5cdee483

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5-admin_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1161468 170d5eb777223389eed37a8491825b42
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/libtomcat5.5-java_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2385122 70ce8a752564f7cf074775d2619fe5ee
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5-webapps_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1459186 1bdcdab47fcbe02f0ac9b20460f777c8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 56958 89f2145bc6065b94faa74a0587cc908b


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

    - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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: [email protected]
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