===================================================================== CERT-Renater Note d'Information No. 2001/VULN310 _____________________________________________________________________ DATE : 24/10/2001 HARDWARE PLATFORM(S) : HP9000 Servers OPERATING SYSTEM(S) : HP-UX 11.04 (VVOS), Virtualvault A.04.50 only. ====================================================================== HP Support Information Digests =============================================================================== o IT Resource Center World Wide Web Service --------------------------------------------------- If you subscribed through the IT Resource Center and would like to be REMOVED from this mailing list, access the IT Resource Center on the World Wide Web at: http://www.itresourcecenter.hp.com/ Login using your IT Resource Center User ID and Password. Then select Support Information Digests (located under Maintenance and Support). You may then unsubscribe from the appropriate digest. =============================================================================== Digest Name: daily security bulletins digest Created: Mon Oct 22 3:00:03 PDT 2001 Table of Contents: Document ID Title --------------- ----------- HPSBUX0110-173 Sec. Vulnerability in Tomcat 3.2.1 (VVOS) The documents are listed below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Document ID: HPSBUX0110-173 Date Loaded: 20011021 Title: Sec. Vulnerability in Tomcat 3.2.1 (VVOS) --------------------------------------------------------------- HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #0173, Originally issued: 22 October 2001 --------------------------------------------------------------- The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible. Hewlett-Packard Company will not be liable for any consequences to any customer resulting from customer's failure to fully implement instructions in this Security Bulletin as soon as possible. --------------------------------------------------------------- PROBLEM: Security Vulnerability in Tomcat 3.2.1. PLATFORM: HP9000 Servers running HP-UX 11.04 (VVOS), Virtualvault A.04.50 only. DAMAGE: Potential unauthorized access to servlet resources SOLUTION: Install the appropriate patches for the Virtualvault release: A.04.50 PHSS_24823, PHSS_25221. MANUAL ACTIONS: See Recommended solution below. AVAILABILITY: The patches are available now. --------------------------------------------------------------- A. Background Virtualvault A.04.50 was released with a the 3.2.1 version of Tomcat. Since then, Tomcat 3.2.3 has been released to correct a number of security related problems. B. Recommended solution 1. Application of the patches PHSS_24823 and PHSS_25221. 2. Installation of Tomcat 3.2.3 runtime JAR files. NOTE: Patch PHSS_24823 contains updates for the mod_jk and mod_jserv Tomcat connectors. This patch needs to be applied to update the connectors to Tomcat 3.2.3. Patch PHSS_25221 contains the utility program to determine the tomcat version. See below. Sites with Tomcat-based applications should also upgrade existing Tomcat 3.2.1 runtime JAR files with the Tomcat 3.2.3 runtime files. HP does not provide the Tomcat runtime environment for Virtualvault A.04.50 outside web server. Tomcat 3.2.3 runtime files may be downloaded from: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.2.3/bin To determine, whether the customer installed version of Tomcat runtime is affected by this SB, perform the following steps from the system console or remote xterm login: I. Run the script "/opt/vaultTS/tools/java/GetTomcatVersion.sh" II. 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