openSUSE Security Update: tomcat ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:1306-1 Rating: moderate References: #822177 #831117 Cross-References: CVE-2013-1976 CVE-2013-2071 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. Description: Tomcat was updated to fix two security issues: CVE-2013-1976: Avoid a potential symlink race during startup of the tomcat server, where a local attacker that gaine access to the tomcat chroot could escalate privileges to root. CVE-2013-2071: java/org/apache/catalina/core/AsyncContextImpl.java in Apache Tomcat 7.x did not properly handle the throwing of a RuntimeException in an AsyncListener in an application, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive request information intended for other applications in opportunistic circumstances via an application that records the requests that it processes. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-632 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.3 (noarch): tomcat-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-el-2_2-api-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-javadoc-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-jsp-2_2-api-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-jsvc-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-lib-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-servlet-3_0-api-7.0.35-2.9.1 tomcat-webapps-7.0.35-2.9.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1976.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2071.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/822177 https://bugzilla.novell.com/831117