gsd-2016-1240
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
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.
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CVE-2016-1240


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    "id": "GSD-2016-1240",
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      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0457",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455",
      "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1240",
      "https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2016-1240"
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      "remediation": "unknown",
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2023-02-06T19:15Z",
      "publishedDate": "2016-10-03T15:59Z"
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}


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