CVE-2016-1240

Name	CVE-2016-1240
Description	The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-622-1, DLA-623-1, DSA-3669-1, DSA-3670-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
tomcat6 (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1	fixed
tomcat7 (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	7.0.56-3+really7.0.109-1+deb8u6	fixed
	stretch	7.0.75-1	fixed
tomcat8 (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	8.0.14-1+deb8u28	fixed
	stretch (security)	8.5.54-0+deb9u8	fixed
	stretch (lts), stretch	8.5.54-0+deb9u15	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
tomcat6	source	wheezy	6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u2	DLA-622-1
tomcat6	source	(unstable)	6.0.41-3
tomcat7	source	wheezy	7.0.28-4+deb7u6	DLA-623-1
tomcat7	source	jessie	7.0.56-3+deb8u4	DSA-3669-1
tomcat7	source	(unstable)	7.0.70-3
tomcat8	source	jessie	8.0.14-1+deb8u3	DSA-3670-1
tomcat8	source	(unstable)	8.0.36-3

Since 6.0.41-3, src:tomcat6 only builds a servlet and docs