USN-3024-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities
USN-3024-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3024-1 5th July, 2016 tomcat6, tomcat7 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat. Software description tomcat6 – Servlet and JSP engine tomcat7 – Servlet and JSP engine Details It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled pathnames used by webapplications in a getResource, getResourceAsStream, or getResourcePathscall. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly list a parentdirectory . This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS andUbuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-5174) It was discovered that the Tomcat mapper component incorrectly handledredirects. A remote attacker could use this issue to determine theexistence of a directory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2015-5345) It was discovered [ more… ]