National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5519

Overview

The JK Connector (aka mod_jk) 1.2.0 through 1.2.26 in Apache Tomcat allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an arbitrary request from an HTTP client, in opportunistic circumstances involving (1) a request from a different client that included a Content-Length header but no POST data or (2) a rapid series of requests, related to noncompliance with the AJP protocol's requirements for requests containing Content-Length headers.

Impact

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490201

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490201

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0973

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0973

External Source: BID

Name: 34412

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34412

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090407 [SECURITY] CVE-2008-5519: Apache Tomcat mod_jk information disclosure vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502530/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0446

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0446.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090408 CVE-2008-5519: mod_jk session information leak vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/08/10

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1810

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1810

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-jk.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/security-jk.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=702540

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=702540

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml?view=markup&pathrev=702540

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/miscellaneous/changelog.xml?view=markup&pathrev=702540

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/native/common/jk_ajp_common.c?r1=702387&r2=702540&pathrev=702540&diff_format=h

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://svn.eu.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/native/common/jk_ajp_common.c?r1=702387&r2=702540&pathrev=702540&diff_format=h

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 262468

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-262468-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022001

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1022001

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35537

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35537

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34621

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34621

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29283

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29283

External Source: MLIST

Name: [tomcat-dev] 20090407 [SECURITY] CVE-2008-5519: Apache Tomcat mod_jk information disclosure vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=123913700700879

External Source: MLIST

Name: [www-announce] 20090407 [SECURITY] CVE-2008-5519: Apache Tomcat mod_jk information disclosure vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/200904.mbox/%3C49DBBAC0.2080400@apache.org%3E

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:018

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html