{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"important"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2016-1240","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2016-1240","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1240"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1003877 for CVE-2016-1240","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1003877"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2016-1240","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2023-02-15T05:08:28Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T05:08:28Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2016-1240","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T05:08:28Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T05:08:28Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"2"}}}