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Debian: CVE-2019-17571: apache-log4j1.2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-17571: apache-log4j1.2 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/20/2019
Created
01/15/2020
Added
01/14/2020
Modified
05/19/2020

Description

Included in Log4j 1.2 is a SocketServer class that is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code when combined with a deserialization gadget when listening to untrusted network traffic for log data. This affects Log4j versions up to 1.2 up to 1.2.17.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-apache-log4j1-2

References

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