[Secure-testing-team] Bug#532363: CVE-2009-0033 CVE-2009-0580 CVE-2009-0783 CVE-2009-0781: Apache Tomcat 5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Package: tomcat5
Version: 5.0.30-12etch1
Severity: serious
Tags: security patch

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids were
published for tomcat5.

CVE-2009-0033[0]:
| Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0
| through 6.0.18, when the Java AJP connector and mod_jk load balancing
| are used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
| (application outage) via a crafted request with invalid headers,
| related to temporary blocking of connectors that have encountered
| errors, as demonstrated by an error involving a malformed HTTP Host
| header.

CVE-2009-0580[1]:
| Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0
| through 6.0.18, when FORM authentication is used, allows remote
| attackers to enumerate valid usernames via requests to
| /j_security_check with malformed URL encoding of passwords, related to
| improper error checking in the (1) MemoryRealm, (2) DataSourceRealm,
| and (3) JDBCRealm authentication realms, as demonstrated by a %
| (percent) value for the j_password parameter.

CVE-2009-0783[2]:
| Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0
| through 6.0.18 permits web applications to replace an XML parser used
| for other web applications, which allows local users to read or modify
| the (1) web.xml, (2) context.xml, or (3) tld files of arbitrary web
| applications via a crafted application that is loaded earlier than the
| target application.

CVE-2009-0781[3]:
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jsp/cal/cal2.jsp in the
| calendar application in the examples web application in Apache Tomcat
| 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18
| allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the
| time parameter, related to "invalid HTML."



If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0033
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-0033
    Patch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=742915&view=rev
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0580
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-0580
    Patch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=747840&view=rev
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0783
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-0783
    Patch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=652592&view=rev http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=739522&view=rev
[3] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0781
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-0781
    Patch: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=750924&view=rev

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