CVE-2013-1976 (GCVE-0-2013-1976)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-07-09 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:20
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0871.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0869.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927622 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0870.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0872.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public ?
2013-05-28 00:00
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