CVE-2016-9774

The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4 on
Debian wheezy, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu
14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8 on Debian wheezy,
before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu
14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8
package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3
on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before
8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the
tomcat account to obtain sensitive information or gain root privileges via
a symlink attack on the Catalina localhost directory.

Bugs

• <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845393&gt;