USN-3081-1: Tomcat vulnerability
19 September 2016
The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.
Releases
Packages
Details
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. (CVE-2016-1240)
This update also reverts a change in behaviour introduced in USN-3024-1 by
setting mapperContextRootRedirectEnabled to True by default.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3081-2: tomcat6, libservlet2.5-java-doc, libservlet2.5-java