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SUSE: CVE-2017-5645: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-5645: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/17/2017
Created
02/10/2022
Added
02/04/2022
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

In Apache Log4j 2.x before 2.8.2, when using the TCP socket server or UDP socket server to receive serialized log events from another application, a specially crafted binary payload can be sent that, when deserialized, can execute arbitrary code.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-log4j12
  • suse-upgrade-log4j12-javadoc
  • suse-upgrade-log4j12-manual

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