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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3842-1 (tomcat7 - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in tomcat7, a servlet and JSP engine. CVE-2017-5647 Pipelined requests were processed incorrectly, which could result in some responses appearing to be sent for the wrong request. CVE-2017-5648 Some application listeners calls were issued against the wrong objects, allowing untrusted applications running under a SecurityManager to bypass that protection mechanism and access or modify information associated with other web applications.
Affected Software
Affected Software
tomcat7 on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.56-3+deb8u10. For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.72-3. We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 packages.