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Debian LTS: Security Advisory for apache-log4j2 (DLA-2842-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'apache-log4j2' package(s) announced via the DLA-2842-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud Security Team discovered that JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. An attacker who can control log messages or log message parameters can execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers when message lookup substitution is enabled.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'apache-log4j2' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

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

Solution

Solution

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-2+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your apache-log4j2 packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)