Bug 732820 – CVE-2011-2481 Apache Tomcat CVE-2009-0783 regression

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Bug 732820 - (CVE-2011-2481) CVE-2011-2481 Apache Tomcat CVE-2009-0783 regression

Summary:	CVE-2011-2481 Apache Tomcat CVE-2009-0783 regression

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2011-2481

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Reported:	2011-08-23 14:09 EDT by Josh Bressers
Modified:	2011-08-24 02:52 EDT (History)
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Description Josh Bressers 2011-08-23 14:09:29 EDT

From the upstream advisory:
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

Low: Information disclosure CVE-2011-2481

The re-factoring of XML validation for Tomcat 7.0.x re-introduced the
vulnerability previously reported as CVE-2009-0783. This was initially
reported as a memory leak. If a web application is the first web
application loaded, this bugs allows that web application to potentially
view and/or alter the web.xml, context.xml and tld files of other web
applications deployed on the Tomcat instance.

This was fixed in revision 1137753 and revision 1138788 and .

This was identified by the Tomcat security team on 20 June 2011 and made
public on 12 August 2011.

Affects: 7.0.0-7.0.16

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2011-08-23 14:10:57 EDT

Statement:

This issue did not affect any version of Tomcat shipped in Red Hat products. This flaw only affected Tomcat versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.16.

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