Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, which may result in possible timing attacks to determine valid user names, bypass of the SecurityManager, disclosure of system properties, unrestricted access to global resources, arbitrary file overwrites, and potentially escalation of privileges.
In addition this update further hardens Tomcat’s init and maintainer scripts to prevent possible privilege escalations. Thanks to Paul Szabo for the report.
For Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’, these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.28-4+deb7u7.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-729-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(95455);
script_version("3.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/05/14");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2016-0762",
"CVE-2016-5018",
"CVE-2016-6794",
"CVE-2016-6796",
"CVE-2016-6797",
"CVE-2016-6816",
"CVE-2016-8735"
);
script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2023/06/02");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-729-1 : tomcat7 security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat
servlet and JSP engine, which may result in possible timing attacks to
determine valid user names, bypass of the SecurityManager, disclosure
of system properties, unrestricted access to global resources,
arbitrary file overwrites, and potentially escalation of privileges.
In addition this update further hardens Tomcat's init and maintainer
scripts to prevent possible privilege escalations. Thanks to Paul
Szabo for the report.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
7.0.28-4+deb7u7.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/12/msg00002.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/tomcat7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/12/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet3.0-java");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet3.0-java-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtomcat7-java");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-admin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-docs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-examples");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat7-user");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libservlet3.0-java", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libservlet3.0-java-doc", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtomcat7-java", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"tomcat7", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"tomcat7-admin", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"tomcat7-common", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"tomcat7-docs", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"tomcat7-examples", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"tomcat7-user", reference:"7.0.28-4+deb7u7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0762
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5018
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6794
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6796
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6797
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6816
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8735
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/12/msg00002.html
packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/tomcat7