UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5645

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5645
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5645.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5645
Upstream
Published
2017-04-17T21:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:07Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

In Apache Log4j 2.x before 2.8.2, when using the TCP socket server or UDP socket server to receive serialized log events from another application, a specially crafted binary payload can be sent that, when deserialized, can execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / apache-log4j2

Package

Name
apache-log4j2
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/apache-log4j2@2.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.2-1
2.4-1
2.4-2
2.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "liblog4j2-java",
            "binary_version": "2.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}