Bug 924841 – CVE-2013-0346 tomcat: World-readable log directory

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Bug 924841 - (CVE-2013-0346) CVE-2013-0346 tomcat: World-readable log directory

Summary:	CVE-2013-0346 tomcat: World-readable log directory

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2013-0346

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2013-03-22 11:41 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2015-07-31 03:02 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-09-01 20:36:52 EDT
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-22 11:41:03 EDT

Agostino Sarubbo reported on the oss-security mailing list [1] that, on Gentoo, Tomcat 7's log directory is world-accessible and the log files inside the directory are world-readable.  This could allow an unprivileged user to read the log files.

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[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/22/15
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/23/5

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-22 11:42:54 EDT

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the tomcat package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18.

Comment 3 David Jorm 2013-09-01 20:36:52 EDT

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Red Hat does not regard this to be a security flaw. The tomcat log directory does not contain any sensitive information, and when sensitive information has been written to log files, this has been considered a security flaw in tomcat (e.g. CVE-2011-2204). This issue was reported to the Apache Tomcat project, and they have not considered it a flaw in any published security advisories.

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