Debian Security Advisory
DLA-746-1 tomcat6 -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 16 Dec 2016
- Affected Packages:
- tomcat6
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 845393, Bug 845425, Bug 846298.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9774. - More information:
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Paul Szabo discovered a potential privilege escalation that could be exploited in the situation envisaged in DLA-622-1. This update also addresses two regressions which were introduced by the fixes for CVE-2016-5018 (when running Jasper with SecurityManager enabled) and CVE-2016-6797.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4.We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat6 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