DSA-3241-1 elasticsearch -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3241-1 elasticsearch -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Apr 2015

Affected Packages:

elasticsearch

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3337.

More information:

John Heasman discovered that the site plugin handling of the Elasticsearch search engine was susceptible to directory traversal.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.3+dfsg-5+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your elasticsearch packages.