| Debian Security Advisory DSA 395-1 | security@debian.org |
| http://www.debian.org/security/ | Martin Schulze |
| October 15th, 2003 | http://www.debian.org/security/faq |
| Package | : | tomcat4 |
| Vulnerability | : | incorrect input handling |
| Problem-Type | : | remote |
| Debian-specific | : | no |
Aldrin Martoq has discovered a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.0.x. Sending several non-HTTP
requests to Tomcat’s HTTP connector makes Tomcat reject further
requests on this port until it is restarted.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has
been fixed in version 4.0.3-3woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem does not exist
in the current version 4.1.24-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat4 packages and restart
the tomcat server.
Upgrade Instructions
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 708 64c5aa3e586635edcd2678d10ab809d2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 16223 bafcad535ede73b939b31e32be50ca9b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1588186 2b2e0d859f7152e5225633933e6585d6
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/libtomcat4-java_4.0.3-3woody3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1134260 e667be7a8c67c26834069f15dd93f616
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4-webapps_4.0.3-3woody3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1164474 9b3283713a2de35d7647f4b9e9820c99
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/t/tomcat4/tomcat4_4.0.3-3woody3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 126724 39150e4598d20ed52d49a470d2d8ce7b
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution
on its next revision.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>