CVE-2008-2938

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2938 at MITRE

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.37, 5.5.0 through 5.5.26, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.16, when allowLinking and UTF-8 are enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via encoded directory traversal sequences in the URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2370. NOTE: versions earlier than 6.0.18 were reported affected, but the vendor advisory lists 6.0.16 as the last affected version.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entry: 417217, 427726

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:018, published Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2009:004, published Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE 10.2	`tomcat5 >= 5.0.30-65` `tomcat5-admin-webapps >= 5.0.30-65` `tomcat5-webapps >= 5.0.30-65`
Novell Linux POS 9 Open Enterprise Server SUSE CORE 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T SUSE CORE 9 for IBM POWER SUSE CORE 9 for IBM S/390 31bit SUSE CORE 9 for IBM zSeries 64bit SUSE CORE 9 for Itanium Processor Family SUSE CORE 9 for x86	`apache-jakarta-tomcat-connectors >= 5.0.19-29.16` `apache2-jakarta-tomcat-connectors >= 5.0.19-29.16` `jakarta-tomcat >= 5.0.19-29.16` `jakarta-tomcat-doc >= 5.0.19-29.16` `jakarta-tomcat-examples >= 5.0.19-29.16`	core9.ia64 core9.ppc core9.x86 core9.x86-64 core9.s390x sles9-oes.x86 sles9-nld.x86 core9.s390 sles9-nlpos.x86 sles9-nld.x86-64 YOU Patch Nr: 12232
Novell Linux Desktop 9 SDK for x86 Novell Linux Desktop 9 SDK for x86_64	`jakarta-tomcat >= 5.0.19-29.16`	core9.ia64 core9.ppc core9.x86 core9.x86-64 core9.s390x sles9-oes.x86 sles9-nld.x86 core9.s390 sles9-nlpos.x86 sles9-nld.x86-64 YOU Patch Nr: 12232
openSUSE 10.3	`tomcat55 >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-admin-webapps >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-common-lib >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-jasper >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-jasper-javadoc >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-jsp-2_0-api >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-jsp-2_0-api-javadoc >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-server-lib >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-servlet-2_4-api >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-servlet-2_4-api-javadoc >= 5.5.23-113.10` `tomcat55-webapps >= 5.5.23-113.10`
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IBM POWER SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IBM zSeries 64bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IPF SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for x86	`websphere-as_ce >= 2.1.0.1-3.3`	sles10-sp2.s390x sles10-sp2.x86 sles10-sp2.x86-64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sles10-sp2.ppc ZYPP Patch Nr: 5850
SLE SDK 10 SP1 for IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries SLE SDK 10 SP1 for IBM zSeries SLE SDK 10 SP1 for IPF SLE SDK 10 SP1 for X86-64 SLE SDK 10 SP1 for x86 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for IBM POWER SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for IBM zSeries 64bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for IPF SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for x86 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IBM POWER SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IBM zSeries 64bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for IPF SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 for x86	`tomcat5 >= 5.0.30-27.30` `tomcat5-admin-webapps >= 5.0.30-27.30` `tomcat5-webapps >= 5.0.30-27.30`	sles10-sp2.ppc sle10-sp1-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.s390x sles10.ppc sles10.ia64 sles10.x86 sle10-sp1-sdk.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.x86 sle10-sp1-sdk.x86 sles10.s390x sle10-sp2-sdk.ia64 sles10-sp2.ia64 sles10-sp2.s390x sle10-sp1-sdk.s390x sle10-sp1-sdk.ppc sle10-sp2-sdk.x86-64 sles10.x86-64 sle10-sp2-sdk.ppc sles10-sp2.x86 ZYPP Patch Nr: 5539

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