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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-1452
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CVE-2004-1452

Description:
Tomcat before 5.0.27-r3 in Gentoo Linux sets the default permissions on the init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but executes the scripts with root privileges, which could allow local users in the tomcat group to execute arbitrary commands as root by modifying the scripts.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16993

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA12296

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-15.xml

BID
  10951


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