Bug#448664: CVE-2007-5461 absolute path traversal vulnerability

[Nico Golde]

Package: tomcat5.5
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for tomcat5.5.

CVE-2007-5461[0]:
| Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.0.0 through
| 4.0.6, 4.1.0, 5.0.0, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.14,
| under certain configurations, allows remote authenticated users to
| read arbitrary files via a WebDAV write request that specifies an
| entity with a SYSTEM tag.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5461

Kind regards
Nico

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