Debian DLA-352-1 : libcommons-collections3-java security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87073

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The Apache commons collection suffered from security issues, making applications to accept serialized objects from untrusted sources.
Remote attackers might take advantage of these issues to execute arbitrary Java functions and even inject manipulated bytecode.

This release of libcommons-collection3-java prevents these issues by disabling the deserialization of the functors classes, unless the system property org.apache.commons.collections.enableUnsafeSerialization is set to 'true'. Classes considered unsafe are: CloneTransformer, ForClosure, InstantiateFactory, InstantiateTransformer, InvokerTransformer, PrototypeCloneFactory, PrototypeSerializationFactory and WhileClosure.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', these problems have been fixed in libcommons-collections3-java version 3.2.1-4+deb6u1. We recommend you to upgrade your libcommons-collections3-java packages.

Learn more about the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Project and how to apply these updates at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87073

File Name: debian_DLA-352.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcommons-collections3-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcommons-collections3-java-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2015

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