openSUSE alert openSUSE-SU-2013:1411-1 (tomcat)

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openSUSE-SU-2013:1411-1: moderate: tomcat 
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Sun,  8 Sep 2013 18:04:38 +0200 (CEST)
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   openSUSE Security Update: tomcat
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2013:1411-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #768772 #822177 #831117 #831119 
Cross-References:   CVE-2012-3544 CVE-2013-1976 CVE-2013-2067
                   
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 11.4
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   An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one
   errata 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-2012-3544: Tomcat were affected by a chunked transfer
   encoding extension size denial of service vulnerability.


Patch Instructions:

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

   - openSUSE 11.4:

      zypper in -t patch 2013-129

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


Package List:

   - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch):

      tomcat6-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-el-1_0-api-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-jsp-2_1-api-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-lib-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-servlet-2_5-api-6.0.32-42.1
      tomcat6-webapps-6.0.32-42.1


References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3544.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1976.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2067.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/768772
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/822177
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/831117
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/831119