USN-4259-1: Apache Solr vulnerability
Apache Solr vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Apache Solr could be made to run programs if it received
specially crafted network traffic.
Software Description
- lucene-solr – Full-text search engine library for Java – additional libraries
Details
Michael Stepankin and Olga Barinova discovered that Apache Solr was
vulnerable to an XXE attack. An attacker could use this vulnerability to
remotely execute code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- liblucene3-contrib-java – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
- liblucene3-java – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
- libsolr-java – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
- solr-common – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
- solr-jetty – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
- solr-tomcat – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-4259-1: Apache Solr vulnerability
