Advisories » MGASA-2019-0079

Updated logback packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Feb 2019
Modification date: 14 Feb 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-5929

Description

It was found that logback is vulnerable to a deserialization issue.
Logback can be configured to allow remote logging through
SocketServer/ServerSocketReceiver interfaces that can accept untrusted
serialized data. Authenticated attackers on the adjacent network can
leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code through
deserialization of custom gadget chains (CVE-2017-5929).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23721
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432858
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5929

SRPMS

6/core

• logback-1.1.3-2.1.mga6