Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-6325: Security patch for tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8 (ALAS-2016-764)
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
10/13/2016
07/25/2018
11/11/2016
04/16/2020
Description
The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 through 7, JBoss Web Server 3.0, and JBoss EWS 2 uses weak permissions for (1) /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and (2) /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade--tomcat7
- amazon-linux-upgrade--tomcat8
- amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat6
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