-- Information disclosure vulnerability in Apache Tomcat

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

               ESB-2008.0865 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][Mac][OSX]
           Information disclosure vulnerability in Apache Tomcat
                             19 December 2008

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 to 6.0.16
                      Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 to 5.5.26
                      Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 to 4.1.37
Publisher:            The Apache Software Foundation
Operating System:     UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                      Windows
                      Mac OS X
Impact:               Access Privileged Data
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2008-2938

Ref:                  ESB-2008.0838

Original Bulletin:    http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html

Revision History:     December 19 2008: Fix released for 4.1.x
                      September 11 2008: Initial Release

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CVE-2008-2938: Apache Tomcat information disclosure vulnerability - Update 2

Severity: Important

Vendor:
Multiple (was The Apache Software Foundation)

Versions Affected:
Various

Description (new information):
This vulnerability was originally reported to the Apache Software Foundation as
a Tomcat vulnerability. Investigations quickly identified that the root cause
was an issue with the UTF-8 charset implementation within the JVM. The issue
existed in multiple JVMs including current versions from Sun, HP, IBM, Apple and
Apache.

It was decided to continue to report this as a Tomcat vulnerability until such
time as the JVM vendors had released fixed versions.

Unfortunately, the release of fixed JVMs and associated vulnerability disclosure
has not been co-ordinated. There has been some confusion within the user
community as to the nature and root cause of CVE-2008-2938. Therefore, the
Apache Tomcat Security Team is issuing this update to clarify the situation.

Mitigation:
Contact your JVM vendor for further information.
Tomcat users may upgrade as follows to a Tomcat version that contains a workaround:
6.0.x users should upgrade to 6.0.18
5.5.x users should upgrade to 5.5.27
4.1.x users should upgrade to 4.1.39

Credit:
This additional information was discovered by the Apache security
team.

References:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html

Mark Thomas
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