RHSA-2007:1069: Moderate: tomcat security update for Red Hat Network Satellite Server

Tomcat is a servlet container for Java Servlet and JavaServer Pagestechnologies.It was reported Tomcat did not properly handle the following charactersequence in a cookie: \" (a backslash followed by a double-quote). It waspossible remote attackers could use this failure to obtain sensitiveinformation, such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks(CVE-2007-3385). Tomcat was found treating single quote characters -- ' -- as delimiters incookies. This could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information,such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks (CVE-2007-3382).The default Tomcat configuration permitted the use of insecureSSL cipher suites including the anonymous cipher suite. (CVE-2007-1858)Tomcat permitted various characters as path delimiters. If Tomcat was usedbehind certain proxies and configured to only proxy some contexts, anattacker could construct an HTTP request to work around the contextrestriction and potentially access non-proxied content. (CVE-2007-0450)Directory listings were enabled by default in Tomcat. Information storedunprotected under the document root was visible to anyone if theadministrator did not disable directory listings. (CVE-2006-3835)It was found that generating listings of large directories was CPUintensive. An attacker could make repeated requests to obtain a directorylisting of any large directory, leading to a denial of service.(CVE-2005-3510) Tomcat was found to accept multiple content-length headers in arequest. This could allow attackers to poison a web-cache, bypass webapplication firewall protection, or conduct cross-site scripting attacks.(CVE-2005-2090)Users should upgrade to these erratum packages which contain an update toTomcat that resolves these issues, and add the tyrex andjakarta-commons-pool packages which are required dependencies of the newTomcat version.