Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0872-01 - Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. A flaw was found in the way the tomcat5 and tomcat6 init scripts handled the tomcat5-initd.log and tomcat6-initd.log log files. A malicious web application deployed on Tomcat could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to change the ownership of an arbitrary system file to that of the tomcat user, allowing them to escalate their privileges to root. Note: With this update, tomcat5-initd.log and tomcat6-initd.log have been moved to the /var/log/ directory.
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