Debian Security Advisory
DLA-989-1 jython -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 18 Jun 2017
- Affected Packages:
- jython
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 864859.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4000. - More information:
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Alvaro Munoz and Christian Schneider discovered that Jython, an implementation of the Python language seamlessly integrated with Java, would execute arbitrary code when deserializing objects.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.2-1+deb7u1.We recommend that you upgrade your jython packages.
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