Apache Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Apache Tomcat, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation. tomcat 2017-05-18 2017-05-18 575796 586966 595978 615868 local, remote 8.0.36 7.0.70 8.0.36

Apache Tomcat is a Servlet-3.0/JSP-2.2 Container.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tomcat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, bypass protection mechanisms and authentication restrictions.

A local attacker, who is a tomcat’s system user or belongs to tomcat’s group, could potentially escalate privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Apache Tomcat users have to manually check their Tomcat runscripts to make sure that they don’t use an old, vulnerable runscript. In addition:

All Apache Tomcat 7 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/tomcat-7.0.70:7"

All Apache Tomcat 8 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-servers/tomcat-8.0.36:8" CVE-2015-5174 CVE-2015-5345 CVE-2015-5346 CVE-2015-5351 CVE-2016-0706 CVE-2016-0714 CVE-2016-0763 CVE-2016-1240 CVE-2016-3092 CVE-2016-8745 CVE-2017-5647 CVE-2017-5648 CVE-2017-5650 CVE-2017-5651 BlueKnight whissi