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ELSA-2013-0870 Important: Oracle Linux tomcat5 security update

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ELSA-2013-0870 Important: Oracle Linux tomcat5 security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/28/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/28/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The (1) tomcat5, (2) tomcat6, and (3) tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) tomcat5-initd.log, (b) tomcat6-initd.log, (c) catalina.out, or (d) tomcat7-initd.log.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-admin-webapps
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-common-lib
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-jasper
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-jasper-javadoc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-jsp-2-0-api
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-jsp-2-0-api-javadoc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-server-lib
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-servlet-2-4-api
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-servlet-2-4-api-javadoc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-tomcat5-webapps

References

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