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openSUSE: 2021:4118-1 Important: Log4j Infinite Recursion

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Calendar Grey December 20, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Vital patch released for log4j within openSUSE addresses serious concerns; installation steps and vulnerability information included.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for log4j fixes the following issues:

- Update to 2.17.0

- CVE-2021-45105: Apache Log4j2 does not always protect from infinite

recursion in lookup evaluation. (bsc#1193887, bsc#1193888)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-4118=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

log4j-2.17.0-4.13.1

log4j-javadoc-2.17.0-4.13.1

log4j-jcl-2.17.0-4.13.1

log4j-slf4j-2.17.0-4.13.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45105.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193887

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193888

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:4118-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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