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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6796): Tomcat vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6796): Tomcat vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/24/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

A malicious web application running on Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M9, 8.5.0 to 8.5.4, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.36, 7.0.0 to 7.0.70 and 6.0.0 to 6.0.45 was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via manipulation of the configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libservlet2-5-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat6-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat7-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtomcat8-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat6
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat7
  • ubuntu-upgrade-tomcat8

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