Summary
The remote host is missing an update to tomcat5
announced via advisory DSA 1453-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201453-1
Insight
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-2007-5461
It was discovered that the WebDAV servlet is vulnerable to absolute path traversal.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.30-12etch1.
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain tomcat5.
The unstable distribution (sid) no longer contains tomcat5.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-3382, CVE-2007-3385, CVE-2007-5461 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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