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OPENSUSE-SU-2021:1605-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2021-12-22 06:11 - Updated: 2021-12-22 06:11
Summary
Security update for log4j
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for log4j
Description of the patch: This update for log4j fixes the following issues: - Update to 2.17.0 - CVE-2021-45105: Apache Log4j2 does not always protect from infinite recursion in lookup evaluation. (bsc#1193887, bsc#1193888) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.
Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-1605
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2021-45105
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.2:log4j-2.17.0-lp152.3.12.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.2:log4j-javadoc-2.17.0-lp152.3.12.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.2:log4j-jcl-2.17.0-lp152.3.12.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.2:log4j-slf4j-2.17.0-lp152.3.12.1.noarch —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
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