Executive Summary

Summary
Title Tomcat vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3204-1 First vendor Publication 2017-02-20
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-02-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Tomcat could be made to consume resources if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - tomcat7: Servlet and JSP engine - tomcat6: Servlet and JSP engine

Details:

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tomcat to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libtomcat7-java 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.10
tomcat7 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.10

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libtomcat6-java 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.11
tomcat6 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.11

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3204-1
CVE-2017-6056

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/7.0.52-1ubuntu0.10
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat6/6.0.35-1ubuntu3.11

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3204-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-03-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0826.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0827.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-23 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0829.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3204-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-15 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-823.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3787.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3788.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2017-03-15 00:25:03
  • Multiple Updates
2017-02-22 13:21:09
  • Multiple Updates
2017-02-20 21:24:37
  • First insertion