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Mageia 8: 2021-0566 Critical: Log4j Denial Of Service Threat Advisory

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Security update for Mageia concerning the log4j flaw. Recommendations supplied for counteracting denial of service threats.
It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations

Summary

It was found that the fix to address CVE-2021-44228 in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations. This could allows attackers with control over Thread Context Map (MDC) input data when the logging configuration uses a non-default Pattern Layout with either a Context Lookup (for example, $${ctx:loginId}) or a Thread Context Map pattern (%X, %mdc, or %MDC) to craft malicious input data using a JNDI Lookup pattern resulting in a denial of service (DOS) attack. Log4j 2.15.0 makes a best-effort attempt to restrict JNDI LDAP lookups to localhost by default. Log4j 2.16.0 fixes this issue by removing support for message lookup patterns and disabling JNDI functionality by default (CVE-2021-45046).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29766

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/14/4

- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rjr-3q55-vv33

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45046

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/log4j-2.16.0-1.mga8

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Publication date: 19 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0566.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-45046

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