Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3669-1 tomcat7 -- 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:

Dawid Golunski of LegalHackers discovered that the Tomcat init script performed unsafe file handling, which could result in local privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.0.56-3+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 packages.