Package: tomcat5.5 Severity: grave Tags: security Hi, the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for tomcat5.5.
CVE-2007-5333[0]:
| Apache Tomcat 6.0.0 through 6.0.14, 5.5.0 through 5.5.25, and 4.1.0
| through 4.1.36 does not properly handle (1) double quote (")
| characters or (2) %5C (encoded backslash) sequences in a cookie value,
| which might cause sensitive information such as session IDs to be
| leaked to remote attackers and enable session hijacking attacks. NOTE:
| this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3385.
If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.
For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5333
Kind regards
Nico
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