Important: tomcat6

Issue Overview:

The (1) tomcat5, (2) tomcat6, and (3) tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) tomcat5-initd.log, (b) tomcat6-initd.log, © catalina.out, or (d) tomcat7-initd.log.

Affected Packages:

tomcat6

Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat6 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-webapps-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-lib-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-javadoc-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat6-6.0.37-1.1.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-1976

Mitre: CVE-2013-1976