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CVE-2016-9775 Detail

Description

The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1 on Debian jessie, 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+deb7u7 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 gain root privileges via a setgid program in the Catalina directory, as demonstrated by /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/attack.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3738 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3739 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/10 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94643 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845385 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-9775
NVD Published Date:
03/23/2017
NVD Last Modified:
04/19/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.