gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201705-09.xml

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<glsa id="201705-09">
  <title>Apache Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Apache Tomcat, the
    worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tomcat</product>
  <announced>2017-05-18</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-05-18</revised>
  <bug>575796</bug>
  <bug>586966</bug>
  <bug>595978</bug>
  <bug>615868</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-servers/tomcat" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">8.0.36</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">7.0.70</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.0.36</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Apache Tomcat is a Servlet-3.0/JSP-2.2 Container.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tomcat. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition,
      obtain sensitive information, bypass protection mechanisms and
      authentication restrictions.
    </p>
    
    <p>A local attacker, who is a tomcat’s system user or belongs to
      tomcat’s group, could potentially escalate privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Apache Tomcat users have to manually check their Tomcat runscripts
      to make sure that they don’t use an old, vulnerable runscript. In
      addition:
    </p>
    
    <p>All Apache Tomcat 7 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/tomcat-7.0.70:7"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Apache Tomcat 8 users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-servers/tomcat-8.0.36:8"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5174">CVE-2015-5174</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5345">CVE-2015-5345</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5346">CVE-2015-5346</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5351">CVE-2015-5351</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0706">CVE-2016-0706</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0714">CVE-2016-0714</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0763">CVE-2016-0763</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1240">CVE-2016-1240</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3092">CVE-2016-3092</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8745">CVE-2016-8745</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5647">CVE-2017-5647</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5648">CVE-2017-5648</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5650">CVE-2017-5650</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5651">CVE-2017-5651</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-04-19T05:58:37Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-05-18T01:49:59Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>