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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2725-1 tomcat6 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

18 Jul 2013

Affected Packages:

tomcat6

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3544, CVE-2013-2067.

More information:

Two security issues have been found in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine:

• CVE-2012-3544

  The input filter for chunked transfer encodings could trigger high resource consumption through malformed CRLF sequences, resulting in denial of service.

• CVE-2013-2067

  The FormAuthenticator module was vulnerable to session fixation.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.35-1+squeeze3. This update also provides fixes for CVE-2012-2733, CVE-2012-3546, CVE-2012-4431, CVE-2012-4534, CVE-2012-5885, CVE-2012-5886 and CVE-2012-5887, which were all fixed for stable already.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.35-6+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat6 packages.