USN-3081-2

Dawid Golunski discovered that the Tomcat init script incorrectly handled creating log files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / tomcat6

Package

Name: tomcat6
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/tomcat6@6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

6.*

6.0.41-4

6.0.45+dfsg-1

6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2",
            "binary_name": "libservlet2.5-java"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-1240",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}