Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Apache Tomcat, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Apache Tomcat POST Content Disclosure Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34057
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34057/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Apache Tomcat, which can be
exploited by malicious people to potentially disclose sensitive
information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing POST data
and can be exploited to potentially disclose the content of previous
POST requests.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.1.32 through 4.1.34 and
5.5.10 through 5.5.20.
SOLUTION:
Apache Tomcat 4.x:
Update to version 4.1.35 or later.
Apache Tomcat 5.x:
Update to version 5.5.21 or later.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Fujitsu, reporting via JPCERT.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apache Tomcat:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@tomcat.apache.org/msg57428.html
JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN66905322/index.html
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