openSUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2013:1307-1 (tomcat)

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openSUSE-SU-2013:1307-1: moderate: tomcat 
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Wed,  7 Aug 2013 10:04:39 +0200 (CEST)
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   openSUSE Security Update: tomcat
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2013:1307-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #768772 #804992 #822177 #831117 #831119 
Cross-References:   CVE-2013-1976 CVE-2013-2067 CVE-2013-3544
                   
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 12.2
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   An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has two
   fixes is now available.

Description:


   Tomcat was updated to fix security issues and bug:

   CVE-2013-1976: Avoid a potential symlink race during
   startup of the tomcat server, where a local attacker that
   gaine access to the tomcat chroot could escalate privileges
   to root.

   CVE-2013-2067:
   java/org/apache/catalina/authenticator/FormAuthenticator.jav
   a in the form authentication feature in Apache Tomcat did
   not properly handle the relationships between
   authentication requirements and sessions, which allows
   remote attackers to inject a request into a session by
   sending this request during completion of the login form, a
   variant of a session fixation attack.

   CVE-2013-3544: Tomcat were affected by a chunked transfer
   encoding extension size denial of service vulnerability.

   Also the following bug was fixed:
   - Fix tomcat init scripts generating malformed classpath
   (http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JT-18545) bnc#804992


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE 12.2:

      zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-633

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - openSUSE 12.2 (noarch):

      tomcat-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-el-2_2-api-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-javadoc-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-jsp-2_2-api-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-jsvc-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-lib-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-servlet-3_0-api-7.0.27-2.19.1
      tomcat-webapps-7.0.27-2.19.1


References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1976.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2067.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3544.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/768772
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/804992
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/822177
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/831117
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/831119