RHSA-2009:1164High

Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update

Published
July 21, 2009
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2007-5333 →CVE-2008-5515 →CVE-2009-0033 →CVE-2009-0580 →CVE-2009-0781 →CVE-2009-0783 →

📋 Description

CVE-2007-5333 — Improve cookie parsing for tomcat5 CVE-2008-5515 — tomcat request dispatcher information disclosure vulnerability CVE-2009-0033 — tomcat6 Denial-Of-Service with AJP connection CVE-2009-0580 — tomcat6 Information disclosure in authentication classes CVE-2009-0781 — tomcat: XSS in Apache Tomcat calendar application CVE-2009-0783 — tomcat XML parser information disclosure

🎯 Affected products94

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-admin-webapps-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-common-lib-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • tomcat5-debuginfo-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • tomcat5-debuginfo-0:5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_3.2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
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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/docs/DOC-11259

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