First published: Fri Dec 31 2004(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Gentoo Linux | =1.4-rc1 | |
Gentoo Linux | =1.4-rc3 | |
Gentoo Linux | =0.5 | |
Gentoo Linux | =1.1a | |
Gentoo Linux | =1.4 | |
Gentoo Linux | =0.7 | |
Gentoo Linux | =1.2 | |
Gentoo Linux | =1.4-rc2 |
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