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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1021-1 jetty8 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2017

Affected Packages:

jetty8

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 864898.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9735.

More information:

It was discovered that Jetty8, a Java servlet engine and webserver, was vulnerable to a timing attack which might reveal cryptographic credentials such as passwords to a local user.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 8.1.3-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your jetty8 packages.

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