UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9775

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.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

• ubuntu•tomcat6

  all

• ubuntu•tomcat7

  < 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 | < 7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3

• ubuntu•tomcat8

  < 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3

References (4)

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9775
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3177-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9775