| Name | CVE-2016-6325 |
| Description | The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 through 7, JBoss Web Server 3.0, and JBoss EWS 2 uses weak permissions for (1) /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and (2) /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
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 | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tomcat6 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| tomcat7 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| tomcat8 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- tomcat8 <not-affected> (Red Hat and derivatives packaging specific)
- tomcat7 <not-affected> (Red Hat and derivatives packaging specific)
- tomcat6 <not-affected> (Red Hat and derivatives packaging specific)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367447