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Ubuntu: USN-4789-1 (CVE-2017-5637): Apache ZooKeeper vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4789-1 (CVE-2017-5637): Apache ZooKeeper vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/10/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Two four letter word commands "wchp/wchc" are CPU intensive and could cause spike of CPU utilization on Apache ZooKeeper server if abused, which leads to the server unable to serve legitimate client requests. Apache ZooKeeper thru version 3.4.9 and 3.5.2 suffer from this issue, fixed in 3.4.10, 3.5.3, and later.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzookeeper-java
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzookeeper-mt2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzookeeper-st2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libzookeeper2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-zookeeper
  • ubuntu-upgrade-zookeeper
  • ubuntu-upgrade-zookeeper-bin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-zookeeperd

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