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USN-899-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities

11 February 2010

Tomcat vulnerabilities

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Packages

Details

It was discovered that Tomcat did not correctly validate WAR filenames or
paths when deploying. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted WAR
file to be deployed and cause arbitrary files and directories to be
created, overwritten, or deleted.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.