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SUSE: 2013:1660-1 Important: jakarta-commons-fileupload Poison Null Byte

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2013
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SUSE Security Update for jakarta-commons-fileupload addresses important fixes for potential vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

jakarta-commons-fileupload received a security fix: * A poison null byte flaw was found in the implementation of the DiskFileItem class. A remote attacker could able to supply a serialized instance of the DiskFileItem class, which would be deserialized on a server, could use this flaw to write arbitrary content to any location on the server that is permitted by the user running the application server process. (CVE-2013-2186) Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-2186 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware: zypper in -t patch slessp3-jakarta-commons-fileupload-8446

References

#846174

Cross- CVE-2013-2186

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2186.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1660-1
Rating: important

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