Security Features The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tomcat8  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-TOMCAT8-363786
  • published10 Aug 2017
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-5018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat8 package and not the tomcat8 package as distributed by Debian.

In 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 a malicious web application was able to bypass a configured SecurityManager via a Tomcat utility method that was accessible to web applications.

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