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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2065-1 apache-log4j1.2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

12 Jan 2020

Affected Packages:

apache-log4j1.2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 947124.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17571.

More information:

Included in Log4j 1.2, a logging library for Java, 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.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.17-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your apache-log4j1.2 packages.

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