DSA-4190-1 jackson-databind -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4190-1 jackson-databind -- security update

Date Reported:

03 May 2018

Affected Packages:

jackson-databind

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 891614.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-7489.

More information:

It was discovered that jackson-databind, a Java library used to parse JSON and other data formats, improperly validated user input prior to deserializing because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-2+deb8u4.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.6-1+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your jackson-databind packages.

For the detailed security status of jackson-databind please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/jackson-databind