Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for tomcat6. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, and cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Fedora update for tomcat6
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46537
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2011-10-20
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for tomcat6. This fixes multiple
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
disclose sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions,
and cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and by malicious people to
disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security
restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
For more information:
SA43194
SA44981
SA45232
SA45748
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update tomcat6").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2011-13457:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-October/068453.html
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