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TITLE:
Apache Tomcat JULI Logging Component Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28274

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28274/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Apache Tomcat 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/13828/
Apache Tomcat 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/3571/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Apache Tomcat, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to insufficient security
restrictions being imposed on the JULI component by the default
logging security policy. This can be exploited by untrusted web
applications to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the
permissions of the Apache Tomcat process via a specially crafted
logging configuration.

The security issue is reported in versions 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and
6.0.0 through 6.0.15.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in SVN repository.
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/conf/catalina.policy?r1=593649&r2=606594&pathrev=606594&view=patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Delian Krustev.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

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