CVE-2016-1240

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libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "El inicio de secuencia de comandos de Tomcat en el paquete tomcat7 en versiones anteriores 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 y el paquete tomcat8 en versiones anteriores 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 en Debian jessie y los paquetes tomcat6 y libtomcat6-java en versiones anteriores 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 en Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, los paquetes tomcat7 y libtomcat7-java en versiones anteriores 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 en Ubuntu 14.04 LTS y los paquetes tomcat8 y libtomcat8-java en versiones anteriores 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 en Ubuntu 16.04 LTS permite a usuarios locales con acceso a la cuenta tomcat obtener privilegios de root a trav\u00e9s de un ataque de enlace simb\u00f3lico en archivo de registro Catalina, seg\u00fan lo demostrado por /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out."}], 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