Roger that,  thanks

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 9:38 AM Christopher Schultz <
ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:

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> Alex,
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> On 10/18/18 11:08, Alex O'Ree wrote:
> > Basically. I start with the tomcat distro, apply my changes,  then
> > zip it up and distribute. I'm at a situation when patches are
> > preferable over a complete reinstall of my product thus the
> > inquiry.  I can probably just replace all the tomcat bits and be
> > done with it.
>
> Tomcat only ships with .jar files and configuration. Feel free to just
> overwrite all the JAR files with the newer Tomcat ones. It's just as
> easy to replace all two-dozen of them as it would be to replace a
> single one, right?
>
> - -chris
>
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 8:52 AM Christopher Schultz <
> > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> >
> > Alex,
> >
> > On 10/14/18 18:06, Alex O'Ree wrote:
> >>>> Is there perhaps a patch that can be applied or better yet, a
> >>>> list of jars that are were affected by this? (I'm just trying
> >>>> to find a simple way to patch a large volume of servers)
> >
> > There is nothing official. Nobody has individually identified
> > which svn revisions fix this issue, so your only options really
> > are:
> >
> > 1. Grab the previous version from source, apply all patches and
> > deploy (this is the same as just grabbing the new binaries,
> > assuming you trust ASF distros)
> >
> > 2. Grab the new binaries, determine which JARs are different
> > (which may not be super-easy), then copy those to each server. But
> > then you have a server which reports x.y.z but is actually x.y.z+∂
> > :(
> >
> > 3. Look at all the commits in ∂ and try to guess the problem.
> > Then, mitigate it at e.g. reverse-proxy of WAF level. One way would
> > be to prevent redirects to sites other than your own (which is
> > really the big danger for open-redirects). Just look for
> > sketchy-looking Location response headers. :)
> >
> > I'm curious how you handle upgrades in general. This certainly
> > isn't the first security issue inn Tomcat that requires an update
> > in your environment. How do you usually handle updates?
> >
> > -chris
> >
> >>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:23 AM Christopher Schultz <
> >>>> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Mark and Michael,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/10/18 05:15, Mark Thomas wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 08/10/18 21:55, Michael Yoder wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:50 PM Mark Thomas
> >>>>>>>> <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> CVE-2018-11784 Apache Tomcat - Open Redirect
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Is it possible to get more information on the
> >>>>>>>> "specially crafted URL"? I'd like more information so
> >>>>>>>> that I can test if some of our apps are vulnerable.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Generally, there is a balance to strike here between
> >>>>>>> making it easy for the less technically competent
> >>>>>>> attackers to construct an attack and making it easy for
> >>>>>>> end users to figure out if they are vulnerable. The way
> >>>>>>> we typically do this is by describing the conditions
> >>>>>>> necessary for an attack to be possible as completely as
> >>>>>>> possible but not providing details of how to perform an
> >>>>>>> attack.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> We also provide references to the commit that fixed
> >>>>>>> the issue. For someone with the right skills, there is
> >>>>>>> usually enough information in the description and the
> >>>>>>> commit for a successful attack to be reverse
> >>>>>>> engineered.
> >>>>
> >>>> It doesn't look like Sergey has posted anything (that I can
> >>>> find) that might be called a full disclosure. If he had, I'd
> >>>> point it out.
> >>>>
> >>>> If I were you, I'd just make sure that you either (a) upgrade
> >>>> or (b) use the existing settings to mitigate the potential
> >>>> problem, as described in the announcement.
> >>>>
> >>>> -chris
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