[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: tomcat6-6.0.26-14.fc14

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-16528
2010-10-20 03:03:45
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Name        : tomcat6
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 6.0.26
Release     : 14.fc14
URL         : http://tomcat.apache.org/
Summary     : Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 2.5/JSP 2.1 API
Description :
Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by
Sun under the Java Community Process.

Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and
released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended
to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.

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Update Information:

Replaces tomcat6-6.0.26-13.fc14

- Resolves rhbz#640686 - Upgrade of tomcat6 wipes out directories
- WARNING - Back up all files that need to be preserved before package update or uninstall - WARNING


CVE-2010-2227 applied

Several Bug fixes:
* tomcat user shell
* Multiple instances of tomcat not working (not sure this is the right fix).
* init script LSB compliance
* Update commons libs - no longer commons-xxx-tomcat5

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Oct 14 2010 David Knox <dknox at redhat.com> 0:6.0.26-14
- Resolves rhbz#640686 - Upgrade of tomcat6 wipes out directories
- WARNING - Back up all files that need to be preserved before
- package update or uninstall - WARNING
* Tue Oct 12 2010 David Knox <dknox at redhat.com> 0:6.0.26-13
- Resolves numerous rhbz: tomcat user shell, commons-xxxx-tomcat5 
- libs have been removed and replaced with jakarta-commons-xxxx, 
- directory permissions.
* Thu Oct  7 2010 David Knox <dknox at redhat.com> 0:6.0.26-12
- resolves rhbz#641102 - tomcat user requires login shell
* Tue Oct  5 2010 David Knox <dknox at redhat.com> 0:6.0.26-11
- Returned to using ant-trax because f14 is not using ant-nodeps-1.8
* Mon Oct  4 2010 David Knox <dknox at redhat.com> 0:6.0.26-10
- ant-nodeps is breaking the build. Put ant-nodeps on the 
- OPT_JAR_LIST
* Fri Oct  1 2010 David Knox <dknox at rehat.com> 0:6.0.26-9
- Resolves rhbz#575341 - Additionally created instances of Tomcat 
- are broken
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #612799 - CVE-2010-2227 tomcat: information leak vulnerability in the handling of 'Transfer-Encoding' header
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612799
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update tomcat6' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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