[ubuntu/xenial-security] tomcat7 7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3 (Accepted)

Eduardo dos Santos Barretto eduardo.barretto at canonical.com
Wed Oct 24 20:52:42 UTC 2018


tomcat7 (7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Timing attack can determine valid user names.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-0762.patch: fix in the Realm
      implementation.
    - CVE-2016-0762
  * SECURITY UPDATE: privilege escalation via insecure init script
    - debian/tomcat7.init: don't follow symlinks when handling the
      catalina.out file.
    - CVE-2016-1240
  * SECURITY UPDATE: SecurityManager bypass via a utility method.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-5018.patch: remove unnecessary code in
      java/org/apache/jasper/compiler/JspRuntimeContext.java,
      java/org/apache/jasper/runtime/JspRuntimeLibrary.java,
      java/org/apache/jasper/security/SecurityClassLoad.java.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-5018-part2.patch: fix a regression when
      using Jasper with SecurityManager enabled.
    - CVE-2016-5018
  * SECURITY UPDATE: system properties read SecurityManager bypass
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-6794.patch: extend SecurityManager
      protection to the system property replacement feature of the
      digester in java/org/apache/catalina/loader/WebappClassLoader.java,
      java/org/apache/tomcat/util/digester/Digester.java,
      java/org/apache/tomcat/util/security/PermissionCheck.java.
    - CVE-2016-6794
  * SECURITY UPDATE: SecurityManager bypass via JSP Servlet configuration
    parameters.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-6796.patch: ignore some JSP options when
      running under a SecurityManager in conf/web.xml,
      java/org/apache/jasper/EmbeddedServletOptions.java,
      java/org/apache/jasper/resources/LocalStrings.properties,
      java/org/apache/jasper/servlet/JspServlet.java,
      webapps/docs/jasper-howto.xml.
    - CVE-2016-6796
  * SECURITY UPDATE: web application global JNDI resource access
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-6797.patch: ensure that the global resource
      is only visible via the ResourceLinkFactory when it is meant to be
      in java/org/apache/catalina/core/NamingContextListener.java,
      java/org/apache/naming/factory/ResourceLinkFactory.java,
      test/org/apache/naming/TestNamingContext.java.
    - CVE-2016-6797
  * SECURITY UPDATE: HTTP response injection via invalid characters
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-6816.patch: add additional checks for valid
      characters in
      java/org/apache/coyote/http11/AbstractInputBuffer.java,
      java/org/apache/coyote/http11/AbstractNioInputBuffer.java,
      java/org/apache/coyote/http11/InternalAprInputBuffer.java,
      java/org/apache/coyote/http11/InternalInputBuffer.java,
      java/org/apache/coyote/http11/LocalStrings.properties,
      java/org/apache/tomcat/util/http/parser/HttpParser.java.
    - CVE-2016-6816
  * SECURITY UPDATE: remote code execution via JmxRemoteLifecycleListener
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-8735.patch: explicitly configure allowed
      credential types in
      java/org/apache/catalina/mbeans/JmxRemoteLifecycleListener.java.
    - CVE-2016-8735
  * SECURITY UPDATE: information leakage between requests
    - debian/patches/CVE-2016-8745.patch: properly handle cache when
      unable to complete sendfile request in
      java/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/NioEndpoint.java.
    - CVE-2016-8745
  * SECURITY UPDATE: privilege escalation during package upgrade
    - debian/rules, debian/tomcat7.postinst: properly set permissions on
      /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost.
    - CVE-2016-9774
  * SECURITY UPDATE: privilege escalation during package removal
    - debian/tomcat7.postrm.in: don't reset permissions before removing
      user.
    - CVE-2016-9775
  * debian/tomcat7.init: further hardening.

Date: 2018-10-24 19:24:15.823240+00:00
Changed-By: Eduardo dos Santos Barretto <eduardo.barretto at canonical.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3
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