CVE-2008-2938 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2938
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44411 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html ST 1020665 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4148 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32222 Secunia Advisory: SA31891 Secunia Advisory: SA31639 Secunia Advisory: SA31865 Secunia Advisory: SA31982 Secunia Advisory: SA33797 Secunia Advisory: SA32120 Secunia Advisory: SA32266 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0864.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0862.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0648.html MILW0RM http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6229 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:188 HP http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2 FEDORA CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-401.htm http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html CERT-VN 343355 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495318/100/0/threaded BID 31681 30633 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html

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