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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1237-1 plexus-utils2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

09 Jan 2018

Affected Packages:

plexus-utils2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000487.

More information:

Charles Duffy discovered that the Commandline class in plexus-utils2, a collection of components used by Apache Maven, does not correctly quote the contents of double-quoted strings. An attacker may use this flaw to inject arbitrary shell commands.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.5-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your plexus-utils2 packages.

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