-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1593-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff June 09, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : tomcat5.5 Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1947 Tt was discovered that the Host Manager web application performed insufficient input sanitising, which could lead to cross-site scripting. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.5.20-2etch3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.5.26-3. We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat5.5 packages. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1277 119f28678cab927a6be1cd1e6622cb70 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 4796377 5775bae8fac16a0e3a2c913c4768bb37 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 29340 1018b80cfeeea2d4f68507be5cdee483 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5-admin_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1161468 170d5eb777223389eed37a8491825b42 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/libtomcat5.5-java_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 2385122 70ce8a752564f7cf074775d2619fe5ee http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5-webapps_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1459186 1bdcdab47fcbe02f0ac9b20460f777c8 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tomcat5.5/tomcat5.5_5.5.20-2etch3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 56958 89f2145bc6065b94faa74a0587cc908b These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhNhm4ACgkQXm3vHE4uylqTaACg3kr0XtxVBnHjCQPTguEgmwxX mqkAn0OLLDfrbBZIrj5qImk7CgaSxoLz =oq2W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----