RHSA-2008:0864High

Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update

Published
October 2, 2008
Last Modified
November 21, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2008-1232 →CVE-2008-1947 →CVE-2008-2370 →CVE-2008-2938 →

📋 Description

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 products8

  • Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_12rh.noarch as a component of Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp_12rh.src as a component of Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_12rh.noarch as a component of Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)
  • tomcat5-jasper-0:5.5.23-0jpp_12rh.noarch as a component of Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)
  • tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-0:5.5.23-0jpp_12rh.noarch as a component of Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)
  • tomcat5-server-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp_12rh.noarch as a component of Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)
  • tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-0:5.5.23-0jpp_12rh.noarch as a component of Red Hat Developer Suite v.3 (AS v.4)

✅ 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

🔗 References (8)