The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package prior to 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package prior to 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages prior to 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages prior to 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages prior to 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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apache tomcat 6.0 |
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apache tomcat 7.0 |
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apache tomcat 8.0 |