188869 – www-servers/tomcat CVE-2007-3385: Handling of \" in cookies

Bug 188869 - www-servers/tomcat CVE-2007-3385: Handling of \" in cookies

Summary: www-servers/tomcat CVE-2007-3385: Handling of \" in cookies

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188871

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename....
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Reported:	2007-08-14 17:45 UTC by William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED)
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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 ***