openSUSE Security Update: tomcat6: fixing a XSS vulnerability (CVE-2010-4172) ______________________________________________________________________________

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0082-1 Rating: important References: #655440 Cross-References: CVE-2010-4172 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 openSUSE 11.2 ______________________________________________________________________________

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

This update fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affects the session list screen. This can be used to steal session cookies because tomcat 6 does not use the httpOnly flag for its cookies. (CVE-2010-4172)

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 11.3:

zypper in -t patch tomcat6-3849

- openSUSE 11.2:

zypper in -t patch tomcat6-3849

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List:

- openSUSE 11.3 (noarch):

tomcat6-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-el-1_0-api-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-jsp-2_1-api-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-servlet-2_5-api-6.0.24-5.8.2 tomcat6-webapps-6.0.24-5.8.2

- openSUSE 11.2 (noarch):

tomcat6-6.0.20-24.27.2 tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.20-24.27.2 tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.20-24.27.2 tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.20-24.27.2 tomcat6-jsp-2_1-api-6.0.20-24.27.2 tomcat6-lib-6.0.20-24.27.2 tomcat6-servlet-2_5-api-6.0.20-24.27.2 tomcat6-webapps-6.0.20-24.27.2

References:

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4172.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/655440