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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Horace Vallas <ha...@hav.com> on 2000/12/13 18:27:59 UTC

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Security Related Updates - Tomcat 3.1.1 and Tomcat 3.2.1

het Craig - sorry to be dense - but what are the "appropriate contents" 
that should be replaced by 3.2.1?  Is this just the various jar's in /lib?

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> 
> TOMCAT 3.2 USERS
> 
> * There are two identified vulnerabilities that are documented in the
>   Release Notes for Tomcat 3.2.1 (file "doc/readme" in the distribution).
>   These vulnerabilities have been fixed in Tomcat 3.2.1.
> 
> * You can download this security maintenance release at:
> 
>     http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/release/v3.2.1/bin/
> 
> * You are ***strongly*** encouraged to download and install this
>   update as quickly as possible.
> 
> * This release fixes ***only*** the identified security vulnerabilities.
>   It does not address any of the other bugs, or feature requests, related
>   to Tomcat 3.2 final.  These issues will be dealt with in future
>   maintenance releases of Tomcat 3.2 as appropriate.
> 
> * The corrective action is to download the binary distribution, and
>   replace the appropriate contents in the $TOMCAT_HOME directory.
>   There is no need to modify any of the binary components (such as the
>   mod_jserv component used to connect Tomcat to Apache).
>