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Re: [DSA 1447-1] New tomcat5.5 packages fix several vulnerabilities

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm(at)inutil.org>
Date: Sun Jan 13 2008 - 17:33:20 EST


<chdh@inventec.ch> wrote:
>> AccessControlException: access denied ... logging.properties read
>
> This is a consequence of the patch of /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/
> 03catalina.policy for CVE-2007-5342 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/
> cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5342).

Indeed. The tomcat5.5-webapps package hasn't been adapted, since it's for examples and documentation and not for production use. There were also some other security problems found in these example apps, which weren't addressed either.

Cheers,

        Moritz

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