CVE-2016-9775

N/A
Published: March 23, 2017 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxTomcat

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (10)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3738
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3739
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/10
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94643
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-1
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-2
x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845385

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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