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Mageia: 2021-0572 Critical: Log4j Denial of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey December 20, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to log4j libraries in Mageia mitigate severe security vulnerabilities linked to unbounded recursion, affecting various services.
Updated log4j packages fix security vulnerability: Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-alpha1 through 2.16.0 did not protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups

Summary

Updated log4j packages fix security vulnerability:
Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-alpha1 through 2.16.0 did not protect from uncontrolled recursion from self-referential lookups. This allows an attacker with control over Thread Context Map data to cause a denial of service when a crafted string is interpreted (CVE-2021-45105).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29786

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-45105

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update patch Mageia Log4j

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/log4j-2.17.0-1.mga8

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Publication date: 20 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0572.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-45105

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update patch Mageia Log4j

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