The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1 on Debian jessie, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u7 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before 8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a setgid program in the Catalina directory, as demonstrated by /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/attack.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-03-23T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:03.584Z

Reserved: 2016-12-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9775

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-23T16:59:00.357

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:01:43.650

Link: CVE-2016-9775

cve-icon Redhat

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