Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1593-1 tomcat5.5 -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 09 Jun 2008
- Affected Packages:
- tomcat5.5
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1947.
- More information:
-
It was discovered that the Host Manager web application performed insufficient input sanitising, which could lead to cross-site scripting.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.5.20-2etch3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.5.26-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5.5 packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5-admin_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/libtomcat5.5-java_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5-webapps_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/libtomcat5.5-java_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.