Debian Security Advisory

DSA-225-1 tomcat4 -- source disclosure

Date Reported:
09 Jan 2003
Affected Packages:
tomcat4
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1394.
More information:

A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in Apache Tomcat 4.0.x releases, which allows to use a specially crafted URL to return the unprocessed source of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances, a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by a security constraint, without the need for being properly authenticated. This is based on a variant of the exploit that was identified as CAN-2002-1148.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.3-3woody2.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain tomcat packages.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem does not exist in the current version 4.1.16-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/libtomcat4-java_4.0.3-3woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4-webapps_4.0.3-3woody2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody2_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.