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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3428-1 tomcat8 -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Dec 2015

Affected Packages:

tomcat8

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-7810.

More information:

It was discovered that malicious web applications could use the Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as expressions were evaluated within a privileged code section.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.14-1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.21-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.21-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.