CentOS: Security Advisory for jakarta-commons-collections (CESA-2015:2671)

The remote host is missing an update for the 'jakarta-commons-collections' package(s) announced via the CESA-2015:2671 advisory.

The Jakarta/Apache Commons Collections library provides new interfaces, implementations, and utilities to extend the features of the Java Collections Framework. It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the commons-collections library. (CVE-2015-7501) With this update, deserialization of certain classes in the commons-collections library is no longer allowed. Applications that require those classes to be deserialized can use the system property 'org.apache.commons.collections.enableUnsafeSerialization' to re-enable their deserialization.

'jakarta-commons-collections' package(s) on CentOS 5.

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Please install the updated package(s).