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Gentoo Tomcat Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12296
Release Date: 2004-08-16
Last Update: 2005-02-15
Popularity: 8,474 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux

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Solution:
Change ownership of "/etc/init.d/tomcat*" and "/etc/conf.d/tomcat*" to "root:root".

Update to "www-servers/tomcat-5.0.27-r3" or later.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2005-02-15: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-15.xml

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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