The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, 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+deb7u8 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 obtain sensitive information or gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina localhost directory.
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{ "availability": "No subscription required", "ubuntu_priority": "medium", "binaries": [ { "tomcat7-examples": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "tomcat7-admin": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "tomcat7-user": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "libservlet3.0-java": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "libservlet3.0-java-doc": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "libtomcat7-java": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "tomcat7-docs": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "tomcat7": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3", "tomcat7-common": "7.0.68-1ubuntu0.3" } ] }
{ "availability": "No subscription required", "ubuntu_priority": "medium", "binaries": [ { "tomcat8-common": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "tomcat8-admin": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "tomcat8-user": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "libtomcat8-java": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "tomcat8": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "tomcat8-examples": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "libservlet3.1-java-doc": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "libservlet3.1-java": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3", "tomcat8-docs": "8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3" } ] }