Debian Security Advisory
DLA-623-1 tomcat7 -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 15 Sep 2016
- Affected Packages:
- tomcat7
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1240.
- More information:
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Dawid Golunski from legalhackers.com discovered that Debian's version of Tomcat 7 was vulnerable to a local privilege escalation. Local attackers who have gained access to the server in the context of the tomcat7 user through a vulnerability in a web application were able to replace the file with a symlink to an arbitrary file.
The full advisory can be found at
http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-Debian-based-Root-Privilege-Escalation-Exploit.txt
In addition this security update also fixes Debian bug #821391. File ownership in /etc/tomcat7 will no longer be unconditionally overridden on upgrade. As another precaution the file permissions of Debian specific configuration files in /etc/tomcat7 were changed to 640 to disallow world readable access.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 7.0.28-4+deb7u6.We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS