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Red Hat RHSA-2021-5269 Moderate: Log4j Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 22, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant notice regarding rh-maven36-log4j12 resolves a concerning vulnerability in Red Hat Software Collections.
An update for rh-maven36-log4j12 is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Log4j is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.
Security Fix(es):
* log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender (CVE-2021-4104)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4104 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-009

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven36-log4j12-1.2.17-23.3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven36-log4j12-1.2.17-23.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven36-log4j12-javadoc-1.2.17-23.3.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven36-log4j12-1.2.17-23.3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven36-log4j12-1.2.17-23.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven36-log4j12-javadoc-1.2.17-23.3.el7.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5269-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Issue date: 2021-12-22

Topic

An update for rh-maven36-log4j12 is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

2031667 - CVE-2021-4104 log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender

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