openSUSE: Security Advisory for tomcat (openSUSE-SU-2016:3129-1)
🗓️ 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.851455");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-12-14 05:55:01 +0100 (Wed, 14 Dec 2016)");
script_xref(name:"CISA", value:"Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog");
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_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2024-06-27 19:23:35 +0000 (Thu, 27 Jun 2024)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("openSUSE: Security Advisory for tomcat (openSUSE-SU-2016:3129-1)");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'tomcat'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This update for Tomcat provides the following fixes:
Feature changes:
The embedded Apache Commons DBCP component was updated to version 2.0.
(bsc#1010893 fate#321029)
Security fixes:
- CVE-2016-0762: Realm Timing Attack (bsc#1007854)
- CVE-2016-5018: Security Manager Bypass (bsc#1007855)
- CVE-2016-6794: System Property Disclosure (bsc#1007857)
- CVE-2016-6796: Manager Bypass (bsc#1007858)
- CVE-2016-6797: Unrestricted Access to Global Resources (bsc#1007853)
- CVE-2016-8735: Remote code execution vulnerability in
JmxRemoteLifecycleListener (bsc#1011805)
- CVE-2016-6816: HTTP Request smuggling vulnerability due to permitting
invalid character in HTTP requests (bsc#1011812)
Bugs fixed:
- Fixed StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in WebAppClassLoaderBase.filter().
(bsc#974407)
- Fixed a deployment error in the examples webapp by changing the
context.xml format to the new one introduced by Tomcat 8. (bsc#1004728)
- Enabled optional setenv.sh script. See section '(3.4) Using the 'setenv'
script' in the referenced documentation. (bsc#1002639)
- Fixed regression caused by CVE-2016-6816.
This update supplies the new packages apache-commons-pool2 and
apache-commons-dbcp in version 2 to allow tomcat to use the DBCP 2.0
interface.
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"tomcat on openSUSE Leap 42.1");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_xref(name:"openSUSE-SU", value:"2016:3129-1");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=openSUSELeap42\.1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/RUNNING.txt");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "openSUSELeap42.1") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"apache-commons-dbcp", rpm:"apache-commons-dbcp~2.1.1~2.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"apache-commons-dbcp-javadoc", rpm:"apache-commons-dbcp-javadoc~2.1.1~2.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"apache-commons-pool2", rpm:"apache-commons-pool2~2.4.2~2.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"apache-commons-pool2-javadoc", rpm:"apache-commons-pool2-javadoc~2.4.2~2.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat", rpm:"tomcat~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-admin-webapps", rpm:"tomcat-admin-webapps~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-docs-webapp", rpm:"tomcat-docs-webapp~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-el-3_0-api", rpm:"tomcat-el-3_0-api~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-embed", rpm:"tomcat-embed~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-javadoc", rpm:"tomcat-javadoc~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-jsp-2_3-api", rpm:"tomcat-jsp-2_3-api~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-jsvc", rpm:"tomcat-jsvc~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-lib", rpm:"tomcat-lib~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-servlet-3_1-api", rpm:"tomcat-servlet-3_1-api~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat-webapps", rpm:"tomcat-webapps~8.0.32~11.1", rls:"openSUSELeap42.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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