CVE

Id
88059  
CVE No.
CVE-2016-1240  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20151227)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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Related CVE References

Id CVE Id CVE No. Reference Actions
766016 88059 CVE-2016-1240 BUGTRAQ:20161001 CVE-2016-1240 - Tomcat packaging on Debian-based distros - Local Root Privilege Escalation  View
766017 88059 CVE-2016-1240 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/539519/100/0/threaded  View
766018 88059 CVE-2016-1240 MISC:http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-DebPkgs-Root-Privilege-Escalation-Exploit-CVE-2016-1240.html  View
766019 88059 CVE-2016-1240 DEBIAN:DSA-3669  View
766020 88059 CVE-2016-1240 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3669  View
766021 88059 CVE-2016-1240 DEBIAN:DSA-3670  View
766022 88059 CVE-2016-1240 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3670  View
766023 88059 CVE-2016-1240 UBUNTU:USN-3081-1  View
766024 88059 CVE-2016-1240 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3081-1  View
766025 88059 CVE-2016-1240 BID:93263  View
766026 88059 CVE-2016-1240 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93263  View
766027 88059 CVE-2016-1240 SECTRACK:1036845  View

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