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Debian: DSA-3738-1 Moderate: Tomcat7 Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2016
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Enhance tomcat7 installation to rectify privilege escalation and remote execution vulnerabilities outlined in DSA-3738-1.
Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, as well as in its Debian-specific maintainer scripts

Summary

As part of this update, several regressions stemming from incomplete
fixes for previous vulnerabilities were also fixed.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 7.0.56-3+deb8u6.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these
problems have been fixed in version 7.0.72-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat7 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: tomcat7
CVE ID: CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-8735 CVE-2016-9774 CVE-2016-9775

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