CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.

Date published : 2016-10-13

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html