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Gentoo Tomcat Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12296
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Release Date:
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2004-08-16
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Last Update:
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2005-02-15
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Popularity:
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8,512 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in the tomcat package for Gentoo, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.
The problem is that tomcat initialisation scripts are owned by the "tomcat" user and group, but are run with "root" privileges during system startup. This can be exploited by users in the "tomcat" group to execute commands as root.
The vulnerability affects versions prior to "www-servers/tomcat-5.0.27-r3". Versions 4.1.30-r4 and 3.3.2-r2 are reportedly unaffected.
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