CVE-2013-1976

Description

The (1) tomcat5, (2) tomcat6, and (3) tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) tomcat5-initd.log, (b) tomcat6-initd.log, (c) catalina.out, or (d) tomcat7-initd.log.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00013.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0869.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0870.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0871.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0872.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927622

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2