Advisories » MGASA-2018-0138

Updated jackson-databind packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 24 Feb 2018
Modification date: 24 Feb 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-17485 , CVE-2018-5968

Description

A deserialization flaw was discovered in the jackson-databind which could
allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending
maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of ObjectMapper
(CVE-2017-17485).

A flaw was found in FasterXML jackson-databind which allows unauthenticated
remote code execution due deserialization flaws. This is exploitable via
two different gadgets that bypass a blacklist (CVE-2018-5968).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22569
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WW7SXEPYMKLVPDYOEHSN52CK3P6WMIQG/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17485
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5968

SRPMS

6/core

• jackson-databind-2.7.6-1.3.mga6