Bug 188871 – www-servers/tomcat < 6.0.14 multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-338{2,5,6})

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 17:45:53 UTC]

Severity:
Low (Cross-site scripting)

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
6.0.0 to 6.0.13
5.5.0 to 5.5.24

Description:
The Host Manager Servlet does not filter user supplied data before
display. This enables an XSS attack.

Mitigation:
Log out (close browser) of the Host Manager application once admin
tasks are complete
Upgrade to 6.0.14

[Comment 1 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 17:49:22 UTC]

6.0.14 is in tree, recently requested stabilization of 6.0.13. We might rush stabilize 6.0.14. No changes to package short of upstream code modifications, which mostly seem to be bug fixes and etc.

[Comment 2 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 14:13:22 UTC]

I'll close the others two bugs since they affect the same versions. William, is it okay to call arches for stabling 6.0.14? And what about the 5.x series? please advise.

[Comment 3 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 14:13:53 UTC]

*** Bug 188869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 14:14:31 UTC]

*** Bug 188868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 14:32:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'll close the others two bugs since they affect the same versions. William, is
> it okay to call arches for stabling 6.0.14?

Yes, 6.0.14 is good to go for stabilization.

> And what about the 5.x series? please advise.

Upstream is supposed to do a 5.5.25 release for weeks now. No clue when their will be a release. Till then 5.5.24 is effected by the issues, although they are low severity. They can not run the host manager to avoid one of the issues. The other two are a bit harder, and it's recommended all around to upgrade to 6.0.14.

But some are reluctant :)

[Comment 6 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 14:46:45 UTC]

thanks for the info.
Arches, please test and mark stable www-servers/tomcat-6.0.14.
Target keywords are: "amd64 ppc ppc64 x86 ~x86-fbsd"

[Comment 7 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 20:35:22 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 8 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 22:27:19 UTC]

Looks like they are about to tag 5.5.25 and release it finally.

http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=118798774800543&w=2

[Comment 9 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) 2007-08-24 23:33:25 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 10 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2007-08-28 20:26:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> amd64 stable

[Comment 11 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2007-08-29 10:18:04 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 12 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-08-31 21:42:12 UTC]

x86 stable, sorry for the delay, readding ppc64, you forgot dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-6.0.14

[Comment 13 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2007-09-02 15:06:39 UTC]

thanks opfer. dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-6.0.14 stable on ppc64

[Comment 14 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2007-09-08 15:38:44 UTC]

This one is ready for GLSA vote. I vote NO.

[Comment 15 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2007-09-08 15:44:19 UTC]

voting NO too and closing.