Bug 188869

Summary:	www-servers/tomcat CVE-2007-3385: Handling of \" in cookies
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) <wltjr>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	java
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3385
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-14 17:45:47 UTC

Severity:
Low (Session Hi-jacking)

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
6.0.0 to 6.0.13
5.5.0 to 5.5.24
5.0.0 to 5.0.30
4.1.0 to 4.1.36
3.3 to 3.3.2

Description:
Tomcat incorrectly handles the character sequence \" in a cookie
value. In some circumstances this can lead to the leaking of
information such as session ID to an attacker.

Mitigation:
Upgrade to 6.0.14

Comment 1 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-14 17:49:18 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) gentoo-dev

2007-08-24 14:13:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188871 ***