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Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : ant (algorithmic_complexity_vulnerability_in_apache)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80580

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Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.

Description

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

 - Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs. (CVE-2012-2098)

Solution

Upgrade to Solaris 11.1.3.4.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4a913f44

http://www.nessus.org/u?4785b054

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80580

File Name: solaris11_ant_20130430.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 1/19/2015

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.1, p-cpe:/a:oracle:solaris:ant

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Solaris11/release, Host/Solaris11/pkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2098