Re: Resend: Tomcat 4.1.24 & JVM 1.4.2 security hole?

[Jean-Francois Arcand]

Oups I've missed the discussion . There is a 1.4.2 bug found by Remy 
(and reported in bugtraq as 4895132. I'm not sure you can access the 
bug). The workaround is to add the following property when starting Tomcat:

-Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false

Can you try it and see if that fixe the problem (I don't have a winXX)? 

-- Jeanfrancois

Jeff Tulley wrote:

The user list has been busy lately discussing a possible security hole,
but only 1/3 of the people in the thread could see the problem.  I
finally got to where I could see it using Tomcat 4.1.24 and JVM 1.4.2,
but NOT with JVM 1.4.1.
The vulnerability is that if you stick a "%20" on the end of a .jsp
url, you get the source.
I forgot to mention the platforms where this has been seen.  I have
seen this with Sun's JVM 1.4.2 on Windows XP, and now I just verified
that it also exists on NetWare's JVM 1.4.2 (built on Sun's source code
base, so not surprising)  It might exist on other 1.4.2 implementations,
but I am not sure. 

I also just verified this on Tomcat 4.1.18 and 4.1.26 as well.

For some reason I see it better with the example jsp's -
/examples/jsp/num/numbguess.jsp%20 for instance.  But, you can tell the
problem is going to be there if, when you add the "%20" to the .jsp
name, you don't get a 404.  This is all going directly to port 8080, so
no native connector is involved.
Jeff Tulley  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(801)861-5322
Novell, Inc., The Leading Provider of Net Business Solutions
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