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Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2016-692: Security patch for apache-commons-collections

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Amazon Linux AMI: ALAS-2016-692: Security patch for apache-commons-collections

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/28/2016
Modified
09/28/2021

Description

As reported upstream, various classes in the functor collection are serialization and use reflection, which could result in arbitrary code execution if objects from untrusted sources are de-serialized.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-apache-commons-collections

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