tomcat5 (SL5)

Synopsis: Important: tomcat5 security update
Issue Date: 2011-03-09
CVE Numbers: CVE-2010-4476

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer
Pages (JSP) technologies.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way certain strings were
converted to Double objects. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause
Tomcat to hang via a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2010-4476)

Users of Tomcat should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue. Tomcat must be restarted for this
update to take effect.

SL5
x86_64
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.x86_64.rpm
i386
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm
tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.17.el5_6.i386.rpm

– Scientific Linux Development Team