CVE-2008-2938 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/31639 http://secunia.com/advisories/31865 http://secunia.com/advisories/31891 http://secunia.com/advisories/31982 http://secunia.com/advisories/32120 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://secunia.com/advisories/32266 http://secunia.com/advisories/33797 http://secunia.com/advisories/37297 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4148 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-401.htm http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/343355 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:188 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0648.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0862.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0864.html http://www.securenetwork.it/ricerca/advisory/download/SN-2009-02.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495318/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507729/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30633 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020665 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2343 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2823 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0320 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44411 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29dc6c2b625789e70a9c4756b5a327e6547273ff8bde7e0327af48c5@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c62b0e3a7bf23342352a5810c640a94b6db69957c5c19db507004d74@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb71997f506c6cc8b530dd845c084995a9878098846c7b4eacfae8db3@3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org3E https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10587 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6229 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00712.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00859.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00889.html