Old Tomcat 4.1 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Arnaud Vandyck avdyk@debian.org
Thu Nov 18 15:12:01 2004


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Paul Dwerryhouse <paul@dwerryhouse.com.au> wrote:=20

> Hi,
>
> I'm doing some follow-up work for the debian secure-testing project,
> and I'm wondering if someone here might know about the following=20
> cross-site scripting vulnerability which was claimed to be in Tomcat 4.1.
>
> http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCAN-2002-1567
>
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2002-q3/0482.html

I can't reproduce it on my system.

> I can't see any references to it in the changelog, and frankly, I don't
> know enough about Tomcat to be able to work out for myself if the Debian
> package is vulnerable or not.
>
> Can anyone tell me if this was ever addressed in the tomcat4 package,
> or if it turned out to be a non-issue?

Does the CAN-2002... mean year 2002? Last Tomcat upstream in Debian is
=2D From 8 Mar 2004 so I supposed it should be resolved upstream for
sometime. Does anyone as another POV?

Cheers,

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