CVE-2016-9775

The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3 on
Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1 on Debian jessie, 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+deb7u7 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 gain root privileges via a setgid program in the Catalina directory, as
demonstrated by /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/attack.

Bugs

• <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845385&gt;