-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-001 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : tomcat SUMMARY : source disclosure EXPLOIT : remote DATE : 2002-10-15 08:15 UTC - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in Apache Tomcat 4.0.x releases (including Tomcat 4.0.5), which allows to use a specially crafted URL to return the unprocessed source of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances, a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by security constraint, without the need for being properly authenticated. This is based on a variant of the exploit that was disclosed on 09/24/2002. Read the full disclosure at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-dev&m=103417249325526&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-www/tomcat-4.0.5 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge tomcat emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9q85zfT7nyhUpoZMRAripAKC2pwD2g82Np0cal/0afanM4mfVCgCfbx9o dNLvNJOnmcq3QcvT/S4D3wQ= =6MID -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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