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Debian: DSA-3504-1 Critical: Bsh Command Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey March 4, 2016
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The recent BeanShell patch corrects severe vulnerabilities permitting unrestricted command execution within the Debian ecosystem. Ensure your bsh packages are updated without delay.
Alvaro Muñoz and Christian Schneider discovered that BeanShell, an embeddable Java source interpreter, could be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands: applications including B...
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.0b4-12+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0b4-15+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch) and unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0b4-16.

We recommend that you upgrade your bsh packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: bsh
CVE ID: CVE-2016-2510

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