The 'tomcat6' package(s) on Ubuntu are missing a security update announced via the USN-976-1 advisory. The update addresses a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information by sending specially crafted requests with invalid headers to the server
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 95 |
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RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2010:0583) Important: tomcat5 security update | 2 Aug 201000:00 | – | redhat |
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2010:0581) Important: tomcat5 and tomcat6 security update | 2 Aug 201000:00 | – | redhat |
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2010:0584) Important: jbossweb security update | 2 Aug 201000:00 | – | redhat |
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2010:0582) Important: tomcat5 security update | 2 Aug 201000:00 | – | redhat |
RedHat Linux | (RHSA-2010:0580) Important: tomcat5 security update | 2 Aug 201000:00 | – | redhat |
Fedora | [SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: tomcat6-6.0.26-14.fc14 | 14 Nov 201021:34 | – | fedora |
Fedora | [SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: tomcat6-6.0.26-11.fc13 | 1 Nov 201020:57 | – | fedora |
Fedora | [SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: tomcat6-6.0.26-3.fc12 | 1 Nov 201020:55 | – | fedora |
ALT Linux | Security fix for the ALT Linux 5 package tomcat6 version 0:6.0.26-alt2_11jpp6 | 18 Oct 201000:00 | – | altlinux |
ALT Linux | Security fix for the ALT Linux 5 package tomcat6 version 0:6.0.26-alt4_16jpp6.M50P.1 | 13 Apr 201100:00 | – | altlinux |
Source | Link |
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ubuntu | www.ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-976-1 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.840485");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2227");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-08-30 14:59:25 +0000 (Mon, 30 Aug 2010)");
script_version("2024-02-02T05:06:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-02 05:06:04 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.4");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-976-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/ubuntu_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=UBUNTU(10\.04\ LTS|9\.04|9\.10)");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"USN-976-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-976-1");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'tomcat6' package(s) announced via the USN-976-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled invalid Transfer-Encoding
headers. A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests containing
invalid headers to the server and cause a denial of service, or possibly
obtain sensitive information from other requests.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'tomcat6' package(s) on Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 10.04.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "UBUNTU10.04 LTS") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libtomcat6-java", ver:"6.0.24-2ubuntu1.3", rls:"UBUNTU10.04 LTS"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU9.04") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libtomcat6-java", ver:"6.0.18-0ubuntu6.3", rls:"UBUNTU9.04"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU9.10") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libtomcat6-java", ver:"6.0.20-2ubuntu2.2", rls:"UBUNTU9.10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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