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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4037-1 jackson-databind -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

jackson-databind

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-15095.

More information:

It was discovered that jackson-databind, a Java library used to parse JSON and other data formats, improperly validated user input prior to deserializing: following DSA-4004-1 for CVE-2017-7525, an additional set of classes was identified as unsafe for deserialization.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-2+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.6-1+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your jackson-databind packages.