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:
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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.
- CVE-2012-3544