Comment 2 for bug 173692

This bug was fixed in the package tomcat5.5 - 5.5.25-5ubuntu1

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tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-5ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #153672, LP: #159661, LP: #161882,
    LP: #173692, LP: #179491), remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Change the Maintainer address.
    - debian/rules: Force flag passed to rm to `prune files that should not be
      installed at all'.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: Check if tomcat-users.xml exists.
    Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo for the patch. Closes: #445857.
  * debian/tomcat5.5-webapps.postrm: Purge links created in postinst script.
    Closes: #453879.
  * debian/tomcat5.5-admin.links: Fix symlink for commons-io.jar.
    Closes: #452366.
  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: Check user id of the user running the init script.
    Closes: #457956.
  * Renamed /etc/cron.daily/tomcat5.5 to /etc/cron.daily/tomcat55.
    Closes: #454296.
  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: source /etc/default/locale and export LANG so
    tomcat gets started with system locale. Originally reported to
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat5.5/+bug/153672.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-4) unstable; urgency=high

  * CVE-2007-5342: Fix unauthorized modification of data because of
    too open permissions. Closes: #458237.
  * Always clean temporary directory on startup. Closes: #456608.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/libtomcat5.5-java.links: Removed links for xml-apis.jar and
    xercesImpl.jar. Closes: #443382, #455495.
  * Added libgnumail-java to Build-Depends. Closes: #454312.
  * Updated Standards-Version to 3.7.3.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-2) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Michael Koch ]
  CVE-2007-5461:
  * Fix absolute path traversal vulnerability. Closes: #448664.

  [ Marcus Better ]
  * Add required commons-io symlink to the admin webapp, which fixes WAR
    file uploads. (Closes: #452366)
  * debian/control: Use the new Homepage and Vcs-* fields.
  * debian/NEWS: Remove outdated entry.

 -- Matti Lindell <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:30:59 +0200