Bug 71177

Summary: Content-type not set for errors
Product: [Retired] Stronghold Cross Platform Reporter: Gary Benson <gbenson>
Component: tomcatAssignee: Gary Benson <gbenson>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Stronghold Engineering List <stronghold-eng-list>
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Description Gary Benson 2002-08-09 16:29:18 UTC 
Tomcat 4.0.3 does not set the content-type for error messages, so exceptions are
displayed as text/plain instead of text/html when viewed through mod_webapp (the
default configuration for SH4).  This is
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6468 and was fixed in Tomcat
4.0.4.
Comment 1 Gary Benson 2002-08-09 16:33:48 UTC 
Note that this bug neatly makes SH4 invulnerable to the cross-site scripting
attack detailed in http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-02-0008.txt.  This
must obviously be remedied before we fix this bug.
Comment 2 Gary Benson 2002-09-09 13:03:07 UTC 
The advisory mentioned above has been classified as
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0682.
Comment 3 Gary Benson 2002-09-24 10:22:20 UTC 
Even without the above bug Stronghold isn't vulnerable to the exploit in the
default configuration, but it is vulnerable if the user enables the
Tomcat-Standalone service.
Comment 4 Gary Benson 2002-09-24 10:26:33 UTC 
Created attachment 77007 [details]
Script to check vulnerability
Comment 5 Gary Benson 2002-09-24 10:27:32 UTC 
Note that stronghold-tomcat-4.0.3-2 (at least as we ship it) was never
vulnerable to the fourth test.
Comment 6 Gary Benson 2002-09-24 16:30:43 UTC 
I was wrong when I said Stronghold is only vulnerable if the user enables the
Tomcat-Standalone service.  Replace 'http://localhost:8080/' with
'http://ServerName/stronghold/examples/java/' in the attached test script, for
example.
Comment 7 Joe Orton 2002-11-07 17:41:12 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-218.html