Bug#465645: tomcat5.5: CVE-2007-5333 unauthorized disclosure of information

[Nico Golde]

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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