openSUSE Security Update: tomcat ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:1411-1 Rating: moderate References: #768772 #822177 #831117 #831119 Cross-References: CVE-2012-3544 CVE-2013-1976 CVE-2013-2067 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available. Description: Tomcat was updated to fix security issues and bug: 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-2013-2067: java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/FormAuthenticator.jav a in the form authentication feature in Apache Tomcat did not properly handle the relationships between authentication requirements and sessions, which allows remote attackers to inject a request into a session by sending this request during completion of the login form, a variant of a session fixation attack. CVE-2012-3544: Tomcat were affected by a chunked transfer encoding extension size denial of service vulnerability. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch 2013-129 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch): tomcat6-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-el-1_0-api-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-jsp-2_1-api-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-lib-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-servlet-2_5-api-6.0.32-42.1 tomcat6-webapps-6.0.32-42.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3544.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1976.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2067.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/768772 https://bugzilla.novell.com/822177 https://bugzilla.novell.com/831117 https://bugzilla.novell.com/831119