DSA-3611-1 libcommons-fileupload-java -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-3092  

The TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload, a package to make it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to servlets and web applications. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw by sending file upload requests that cause the HTTP server using the Apache Commons Fileupload library to become unresponsive, preventing the server from servicing other requests. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.1-1+deb8u1. For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.2-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libcommons-fileupload-java packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3611-1 libcommons-fileupload-java -- security update

Date Reported:
30 Jun 2016
Affected Packages:
libcommons-fileupload-java
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-3092.
More information:

The TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload, a package to make it easy to add robust, high-performance, file upload capability to servlets and web applications. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw by sending file upload requests that cause the HTTP server using the Apache Commons Fileupload library to become unresponsive, preventing the server from servicing other requests.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.1-1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcommons-fileupload-java packages.