tomcat5.5 several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat
servlet and JSP engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2007-3382

It was discovered that single quotes (') in cookies were treated
as a delimiter, which could lead to an information leak.

• CVE-2007-3385

It was discovered that the character sequence " in cookies was
handled incorrectly, which could lead to an information leak.

• CVE-2007-3386

It was discovered that the host manager servlet performed
insufficient input validation, which could lead to a cross-site
scripting attack.

• CVE-2007-5342

It was discovered that the JULI logging component did not restrict
its target path, resulting in potential denial of service through
file overwrites.

• CVE-2007-5461

It was discovered that the WebDAV servlet is vulnerable to absolute
path traversal.

The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn’t contain tomcat5.5.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.5.20-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5.5 packages.