CVE-2016-9775
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 23, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 2, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-3177-2vendor-advisory
- 94643vdb-entry
- DSA-3739vendor-advisory
- DSA-3738vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20161202 CVE request: tomcat privilege escalations in Debian packagingmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20161202 Re: CVE request: tomcat privilege escalations in Debian packagingmailing-list
- USN-3177-1vendor-advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845385
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/
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