Synopsis
Moderate: rh-java-common-lucene security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
An update for rh-java-common-lucene is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
Security Fix(es):
- It was discovered that Lucene's XML query parser did not properly restrict doctype declaration and expansion of external entities. An attacker with access to an application using a Lucene XML query parser could exploit this flaw to perform XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks. (CVE-2017-12629)
For more information regarding CVE-2017-12629, see the article linked in the References section.
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
Affected Products
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1501529 - CVE-2017-12629 Solr: Code execution via entity expansion
CVEs
References
Vulmon