usn-3081-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-09-19 16:55
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
Summary
tomcat6, tomcat7, tomcat8 vulnerability
Details

Dawid Golunski discovered that the Tomcat init script incorrectly handled creating log files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges. (CVE-2016-1240)

This update also reverts a change in behaviour introduced in USN-3024-1 by setting mapperContextRootRedirectEnabled to True by default.

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