RHSA-2008:0862High

Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update

Published
October 2, 2008
Last Modified
November 21, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2007-5342 →CVE-2007-5461 →CVE-2008-1232 →CVE-2008-1947 →CVE-2008-2370 →CVE-2008-2938 →

📋 Description

CVE-2007-5342 — Apache Tomcat's default security policy is too open CVE-2007-5461 — Absolute path traversal Apache Tomcat WEBDAV CVE-2008-1232 — tomcat: Cross-Site-Scripting enabled by sendError call CVE-2008-1947 — Tomcat host manager xss - name field CVE-2008-2370 — tomcat RequestDispatcher information disclosure vulnerability CVE-2008-2938 — tomcat Unicode directory traversal vulnerability

🎯 Affected products39

  • Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.src as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.src as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.src as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-jasper-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-jasper-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-jasper-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
  • tomcat5-server-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4AS
  • tomcat5-server-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4ES
  • tomcat5-server-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_4rh.9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Application Server v2 4WS
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

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