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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2009.0179 -- [Solaris]
Security Vulnerabilities in Tomcat 5.5 may Lead to Cross
Site Scripting (XSS) or Directory Traversal
27 February 2009
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Tomcat 5.5
Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris
OpenSolaris
Impact: Access Privileged Data
Cross-site Scripting
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CVE-2008-2370 CVE-2008-1947 CVE-2008-1232
Ref: ESB-2008.0575
ESB-2008.0772
ESB-2008.0838
ESB-2008.0941
ESB-2008.1099
ESB-2009.0155
ESB-2009.0167
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-66-251986-1
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Solution Type: Sun Alert
Solution 251986 : Security Vulnerabilities in Tomcat 5.5 may Lead
to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) or Directory Traversal
Bug ID: 6755592
Product
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System
OpenSolaris
Date of Resolved Release: 25-Feb-2009
SA Document Body
Security vulnerabilities in Tomcat 5.5 may lead to Cross Site Scripting
(XSS) or directory traversal:
1. Impact
There are three security vulnerabilities in the Tomcat JSP/Servlet
container that affect Tomcat 5.5 bundled in Solaris 9 and Solaris 10.
The first two security vulnerabilities are Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
issues. One in the HttpServletResponse.sendError method
(CVE-2008-1232) and the other in the Tomcat Virtual Host Manager
(CVE-2008-1947). These may allow a local or remote unprivileged user
to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, which in turn may allow the
unprivileged user to bypass access control and gain access to
unauthorized data.
The third security vulnerability is a Directory Traversal
vulnerability in the RequestDispatcher class (CVE-2008-2370) that may
allow a local or remote unprivileged user to bypass access control and
gain access to unauthorized data.
Additional information regarding these issues is available at:
* CVE-2008-1232 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1232
* CVE-2008-1947 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1947
* CVE-2008-2370 at:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2370
2. Contributing Factors
These issues can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 9 without patch 114016-03
* Solaris 10 without patch 122911-15
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_100
x86 Platform
* Solaris 9 without patch 114017-03
* Solaris 10 without patch 122912-15
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_100
Note 1: Solaris 8 does not include support for Tomcat and therefore is
not impacted by these issues.
Note 2: OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes
above and beyond the build from which it was derived. To determine
the base build of OpenSolaris, the following command can be used:
$ uname -v
snv_86
Note 3: A system is only vulnerable to this issues if Tomcat 5.5 has
been configured and is running on the system.
To determine if Tomcat is installed on the system, a command such as
the following can be used:
% pkginfo SUNWtcatr
system SUNWtcatr Tomcat Servlet/JSP Container (root)
Tomcat can be configured to start in various different ways. For
assistance in determining if Tomcat is configured to run on the
system, consult the documentation which is usually available in the
"/var/apache/tomcat/webapps/tomcat-docs" directory.
3. Symptoms
There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described
issues have been exploited.
4. Workaround
There are no workarounds for these issues. Please see the Resolution
section below.
5. Resolution
These issues are resolved in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
* Solaris 9 with patch 114016-03 or later
* Solaris 10 with patch 122911-15 or later
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_101 or later
x86 Platform
* Solaris 9 with patch 114017-03 or later
* Solaris 10 with patch 122912-15 or later
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_101 or later
For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical
Instruction ID 213557.
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