| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'tomcat6, tomcat7' package(s) announced via the USN-2130-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain inconsistent
HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct
request smuggling attacks. (CVE-2013-4286)
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled certain requests
submitted using chunked transfer encoding. A remote attacker could use this
flaw to cause the Tomcat server to stop responding, resulting in a denial
of service. (CVE-2013-4322)
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly applied the disableURLRewriting
setting when handling a session id in a URL. A remote attacker could
possibly use this flaw to conduct session fixation attacks. This issue
only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0033)
It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled malformed Content-Type
headers and multipart requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
cause the Tomcat server to stop responding, resulting in a denial of
service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10.
(CVE-2014-0050)
Affected Software/OS:
'tomcat6, tomcat7' package(s) on Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.10.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.5
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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