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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-1240): Tomcat vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-1240): Tomcat vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/03/2016
Modified
10/28/2020

Description

The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libservlet2-5-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat6-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat7-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat8-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat6
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat7
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat8

References

  • USN-3081-1
  • USN-3081-2
  • RHSA-2017:0455
  • RHSA-2017:0456
  • RHSA-2017:0457
  • DLA-622-1
  • DLA-623-1
  • DSA-3669
  • DSA-3670
  • 93263
  • 1036845
  • GLSA-201705-09
  • CVE-2016-1240
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