RE: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question

2007-04-11 Thread James Reinertson
Subject: Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question Laura McCord wrote: I currently have Tomcat 5.0.28 installed and we received a security vulnerability notice pertaining to a Apache Tomcat Directory Traversal. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-03/0167.html We were thinking about

Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Thomas
James Reinertson wrote: It was my understanding that Tomcat 5.5 could be configured to use JRE 1.4 and that it had no need for an external JDK compiler. This is correct. A 1.4 JRE works just as well as a 1.4 JDK. Mark - To

RE: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question

2007-04-11 Thread James Reinertson
? -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:00 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question James Reinertson wrote: It was my understanding that Tomcat 5.5 could be configured to use JRE 1.4 and that it had no need

Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question

2007-04-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On 4/11/07, James Reinertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All right. So then I have two questions. 1. Is it possible to have two JRE versions (1.4.x and 1.6.x) installed on the system running Tomcat 5.5 and set Tomcat to use JRE 1.4? Of course. $JAVA_HOME, $JRE_HOME - set them as you like. 2.

Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question

2007-04-10 Thread Rui Monteiro
Supposing the security vulnerability to be true as it seems (but i didn't check) means first of all that if you don't have the Tomcat Manager Aplication working and you don't have more than one web aplication or at least you don't have any other application proxified then you don't have to

[Fwd: Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question]

2007-04-10 Thread Rui Monteiro
And just in case! It desn't seem to apply in case you don't have Apache Server + Apache Tomcat through connector. Mensaje original Supposing the security vulnerability to be true as it seems (but i didn't check) means first of all that if you don't have the Tomcat Manager

Re: [Fwd: Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question]

2007-04-10 Thread Rashmi Rubdi
You may want to double-check with the people who wrote the report, just to be sure. I have a small site hosted on Tomcat 5.5.9 and I think the host provider is using Apache connector --- my site often crashes and shuts down and I sometimes see the directory structure. But it might not be because

Re: [Fwd: Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question]

2007-04-10 Thread Laura McCord
I have multiple installations of Tomcat on various servers. One in particular is our portal server that does not have the tomcat manager accessible so it should be fine. However, we do have another installation on a different server that an administrator uses to upload/modify existing web

Re: [Fwd: Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question]

2007-04-10 Thread Rui Monteiro
Laura, It's true that there's a problem with double negative phrases. So to be more explict. As far as I can read from the report you showed the problem WOULD NOT EXIST ON STANDALONE TOMCAT. You can go without upgrade at least on basis of this specific security hole. Laura McCord escribió:

Re: [Fwd: Re: Tomcat 5.5.23 Question]

2007-04-10 Thread Laura McCord
oh ok. thanks ;) Rui Monteiro wrote: Laura, It's true that there's a problem with double negative phrases. So to be more explict. As far as I can read from the report you showed the problem WOULD NOT EXIST ON STANDALONE TOMCAT. You can go without upgrade at least on basis of this