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CentOS Update for tomcat5 CESA-2009:1164 centos5 i386

🗓️ 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AGType 
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The remote host is missing an update for the 'tomcat5' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. It was discovered that the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0871 did not address all possible flaws in the way Tomcat handles certain characters and character sequences in cookie values. A remote attacker could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, and then use this information for session hijacking attacks. Note: The fix for the CVE-2007-5333 flaw changes the default cookie processing behavior: with this update, version 0 cookies that contain values that must be quoted to be valid are automatically changed to version 1 cookies. To reactivate the previous, but insecure behavior, add the following entry to the '/etc/tomcat5/catalina.properties' file: org.apache.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie.VERSION_SWITCH=false. It was discovered that request dispatchers did not properly normalize user requests that have trailing query strings, allowing remote attackers to send specially-crafted requests that would cause an information leak. A flaw was found in the way the Tomcat AJP (Apache JServ Protocol) connector processes AJP connections. An attacker could use this flaw to send specially-crafted requests that would cause a temporary denial of service. It was discovered that the error checking methods of certain authentication classes did not have sufficient error checking, allowing remote attackers to enumerate (via brute force methods) usernames registered with applications running on Tomcat when FORM-based authentication was used. A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the examples calendar application. With some web browsers, remote attackers could use this flaw to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'time' parameter. It was discovered that web applications containing their own XML parsers could replace the XML parser Tomcat uses to parse configuration files. A malicious web application running on a Tomcat instance could read or, potentially, modify the configuration and XML-bas

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-July/016048.html");
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.880716");
  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:"2011-08-09 08:20:34 +0200 (Tue, 09 Aug 2011)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-09 22:58:00 +0000 (Wed, 09 Oct 2019)");
  script_xref(name:"CESA", value:"2009:1164");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-5333", "CVE-2008-5515", "CVE-2009-0033", "CVE-2009-0580", "CVE-2009-0781", "CVE-2009-0783");
  script_name("CentOS Update for tomcat5 CESA-2009:1164 centos5 i386");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'tomcat5'
  package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=CentOS5");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"tomcat5 on CentOS 5");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer
  Pages (JSP) technologies.

  It was discovered that the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0871 did not
  address all possible flaws in the way Tomcat handles certain characters and
  character sequences in cookie values. A remote attacker could use this flaw
  to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, and then use this
  information for session hijacking attacks. (CVE-2007-5333)

  Note: The fix for the CVE-2007-5333 flaw changes the default cookie
  processing behavior: with this update, version 0 cookies that contain
  values that must be quoted to be valid are automatically changed to version
  1 cookies. To reactivate the previous, but insecure behavior, add the
  following entry to the '/etc/tomcat5/catalina.properties' file:

  org.apache.tomcat.util.http.ServerCookie.VERSION_SWITCH=false

  It was discovered that request dispatchers did not properly normalize user
  requests that have trailing query strings, allowing remote attackers to
  send specially-crafted requests that would cause an information leak.
  (CVE-2008-5515)

  A flaw was found in the way the Tomcat AJP (Apache JServ Protocol)
  connector processes AJP connections. An attacker could use this flaw to
  send specially-crafted requests that would cause a temporary denial of
  service. (CVE-2009-0033)

  It was discovered that the error checking methods of certain authentication
  classes did not have sufficient error checking, allowing remote attackers
  to enumerate (via brute force methods) usernames registered with
  applications running on Tomcat when FORM-based authentication was used.
  (CVE-2009-0580)

  A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the examples calendar
  application. With some web browsers, remote attackers could use this flaw
  to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'time' parameter.
  (CVE-2009-0781)

  It was discovered that web applications containing their own XML parsers
  could replace the XML parser Tomcat uses to parse configuration files. A
  malicious web application running on a Tomcat instance could read or,
  potentially, modify the configuration and XML-based data of other web
  applications deployed on the same Tomcat instance. (CVE-2009-0783)

  Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
  backported patches to resolve these issues. Tomcat must be restarted for
  this update to take effect.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated packages.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";

if(release == "CentOS5")
{
  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5", rpm:"tomcat5~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-admin-webapps", rpm:"tomcat5-admin-webapps~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-common-lib", rpm:"tomcat5-common-lib~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-jasper", rpm:"tomcat5-jasper~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-jasper-javadoc", rpm:"tomcat5-jasper-javadoc~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api", rpm:"tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc", rpm:"tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-server-lib", rpm:"tomcat5-server-lib~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api", rpm:"tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc", rpm:"tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"tomcat5-webapps", rpm:"tomcat5-webapps~5.5.23~0jpp.7.el5_3.2", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
  {
    security_message(data:res);
    exit(0);
  }

  if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
  exit(0);
}

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