Hello Anne,

Thank you for the valuable advice. Yea, I can start with upgrading
httpd. I'm taking a look now actually. But I hope I could get the
answer for the "gap" as well as you mentioned.

Thank you.
Soon-Won


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Anne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apache only talks to mod_jk, not Tomcat, so the version of Apache you
> need is whatever is compatible with your version of mod_jk.
>
> I use Debian Linux, so what I would do first is use Google to work out
> whether the version of Tomcat I want to use requires a specific
> version of mod_jk. If so, I would use Debian's apt-get to ensure I had
> at least that version of mod_jk, and apt-get would automatically
> ensure I had a compatible version of Apache.
>
> Of course, if you don't use a package manager such as apt-get, then
> you'll have to read the release notes for the version you want to use.
> However the documentation for these is usually pretty good at telling
> you if there's some restriction with what version works with what.
>
> I suspect that doesn't answer all of your question, but hopefully it
> gives you a starting point, and maybe someone else can fill in the
> gaps. i don't use Apache/mod_jk these days, having switched to nginx.
>
> Cheers,
> Anne.
>
> On 11 October 2011 01:22, Soon Won Park <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to know what I should upgrade - tomcat or apache httpd?
>>
>> CVE pointed out that some of the Tomcat versions on Linux  have 
>> vulnerability.
>> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2729
>>
>> I have opentaps 1.0.3(include tomcat 5.5.20) version running on apache
>> 2.2.3 by using mod_jk. Do you think I need to upgrade tomcat or
>> apache? It's little bit difficult to upgrade opentaps version itself.
>>
>> It might not be so difficult to upgrade both, but I'd like to make
>> sure what's real problem before taking next step.
>>
>> My doube is, if tomcat is being used through mod_jk, then, the tomcat
>> version itself might not be matter. And this mean I do not need to
>> upgrade tomcat, but rather need to upgrade apache httpd which would be
>> the interface of the server. According to CVE posting, it says I need
>> to upgrade to tomcat which include vulnerable version of jsvc. Thus I
>> need to upgrade to jsvc 1.0.7 or later(I guess it's being used in
>> tomcat & apache both). But I couldn't find what version of jsvc is
>> being used on apache httpd 2.2.3. So I'm not sure I need to upgrade
>> apache httpd itself as well or not.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for reading.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Soon-Won Park
>>
>
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