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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2725-1 (tomcat6 - several vulnerabilities)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Two security issues have been found in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine: CVE-2012-3544 The input filter for chunked transfer encodings could trigger high resource consumption through malformed CRLF sequences, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2013-2067 The FormAuthenticator module was vulnerable to session fixation.
Affected Software
Affected Software
tomcat6 on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.35-1+squeeze3. This update also provides fixes for CVE-2012-2733, CVE-2012-3546, CVE-2012-4431, CVE-2012-4534, CVE-2012-5885, CVE-2012-5886 and CVE-2012-5887 , which were all fixed for stable already. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.35-6+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat6 packages.