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Debian: DSA-3428-1 Moderate: Tomcat8 Expression Language Exploit

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2015
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Patch released for Tomcat8 to mitigate Expression Language vulnerability. Keep your environment safe and current.
It was discovered that malicious web applications could use the Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as expressions were evaluated within a privileged co...
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Summary

It was discovered that malicious web applications could use the
Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as
expressions were evaluated within a privileged code section.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0.14-1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 8.0.21-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0.21-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: tomcat8
CVE ID: CVE-2014-7810

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