Package name tomcat5
Date January 16th, 2009
Advisory ID MDVSA-2009:018
Affected versions 2008.1

Problem Description

Apache Tomcat does not properly handle certain characters in a cookie
value, which could possibly lead to the leak of sensitive information
such as session IDs (CVE-2007-5333).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2008.1

 990a9d6ffae7be5841f9a9073be4d0af  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 223876925f17ef248c6ff17d4accb563  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 7436c767a849437fd50b7e79d1666097  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 7cd33808c56ceb9ddeab3d319a372114  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-jasper-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 2e7f6a381670859429d071857f090fbe  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 3cc0b00b623ddaf17f139a21f10db64d  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 e872e87d9b621ba00bf08ce6ffd97834  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 bf4dee3baeb2250edb0bcd6cd0f9d230  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 3355b29e70c1c9bcebcd682b65223d5f  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 b80984a00d8d52d56fe2a151254bb131  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 2dfd81094518a497ede031ee151ef970  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 8c44749cd7df3d596fd5873a4cd34666  2008.1/i586/tomcat5-webapps-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm 
 0f53b8347922bd4df159fb7fe7685c4d  2008.1/SRPMS/tomcat5-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64

 487e4d61d35d204ed3a6434153a41770  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 cc1781c4ae7c9dac71866572fe48b771  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 b9835f802b0827a34fc99e4e959074b5  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 77d7e197b3ababc702bddf17d9442c45  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-jasper-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 6cc1549ac8610acb83678eb2323b7525  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-jasper-eclipse-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 082baa5fdbb552b7c519008cabeaf514  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 4637956ec02229c867448f3e5b026368  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 0a6062f4039d2f76ae89911bb2ab5ac6  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 e70ddb331223b12255ea321b2c12de5b  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 d839046008950ac06d63b9b5389a2e36  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 56cc4c6e421e81091e103d2d02bcdbc5  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 6a18fb4936f918294641fa63538aba13  2008.1/x86_64/tomcat5-webapps-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm 
 0f53b8347922bd4df159fb7fe7685c4d  2008.1/SRPMS/tomcat5-5.5.25-1.2.1.2mdv2008.1.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5333

Upgrade

To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.


Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.