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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200408-15">
+ <title>Tomcat: Insecure installation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Improper file ownership may allow a member of the tomcat group to execute
+ scripts as root.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">tomcat</product>
+ <announced>August 15, 2004</announced>
+ <revised>May 22, 2006: 04</revised>
+ <bug>59232</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-servers/tomcat" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">5.0.27-r3</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">4.1.30-r4</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">3.3.2-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">5.0.27-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Tomcat is the Apache Jakarta Project's official implementation of Java
+ Servlets and Java Server Pages.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ The Gentoo ebuild for Tomcat sets the ownership of the Tomcat init
+ scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but those scripts are executed with root
+ privileges when the system is started. This may allow a member of the
+ tomcat group to run arbitrary code with root privileges when the Tomcat
+ init scripts are run.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ This could lead to a local privilege escalation or root compromise by
+ authenticated users.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ Users may change the ownership of /etc/init.d/tomcat* and
+ /etc/conf.d/tomcat* to be root:root:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # chown -R root:root /etc/init.d/tomcat*
+ # chown -R root:root /etc/conf.d/tomcat*</code>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Tomcat users can upgrade to the latest stable version, or simply
+ apply the workaround:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+ # emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=www-servers/tomcat-5.0.27-r3&quot;
+ # emerge &quot;&gt;=www-servers/tomcat-5.0.27-r3&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1452">CVE-2004-1452</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:54:24 +0000">
+ dmargoli
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>