Debian Security Advisory DSA 2401-1 (tomcat6)

The remote host is missing an update to tomcat6 announced via advisory DSA 2401-1.

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Tomcat, a servlet and JSP engine: CVE-2011-1184 CVE-2011-5062 CVE-2011-5063 CVE-2011-5064 The HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation performed insufficient countermeasures against replay attacks. CVE-2011-2204 In rare setups passwords were written into a logfile. CVE-2011-2526 Missing input sanisiting in the HTTP APR or HTTP NIO connectors could lead to denial of service. CVE-2011-3190 AJP requests could be spoofed in some setups. CVE-2011-3375 Incorrect request caching could lead to information disclosure. CVE-2011-4858 CVE-2012-0022 This update adds countermeasures against a collision denial of service vulnerability in the Java hashtable implementation and addresses denial of service potentials when processing large amounts of requests. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 6.0.35-1+squeeze2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 6.0.35-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat6 packages.