Bug 29827

Summary:	log4j new security issue CVE-2021-44832
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Sec team <security>
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	andrewsfarm, davidwhodgins, mageia, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	8	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA8-64-OK
Source RPM:	log4j-2.17.0-1.mga9.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2021-12-29 05:21:02 CET

Apache has issued an advisory today (December 28):
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/28/1

The issue is fixed upstream in 2.17.1.

Mageia 8 is also affected.

David Walser 2021-12-29 05:21:24 CET

Status comment: (none) => Fixed upstream in 2.17.1
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8TOO

Comment 1 Nicolas Lécureuil 2021-12-29 09:36:51 CET

fixed in mga 8/9

src:
    - log4j-2.17.1-1.mga8

Whiteboard: MGA8TOO => (none)
Status comment: Fixed upstream in 2.17.1 => (none)
Version: Cauldron => 8
Assignee: java => qa-bugs
CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 David Walser 2021-12-29 18:20:34 CET

log4j-jcl-2.17.1-1.mga8
log4j-slf4j-2.17.1-1.mga8
log4j-2.17.1-1.mga8

from log4j-2.17.1-1.mga8.src.rpm

Comment 3 David Walser 2021-12-31 19:09:47 CET

openSUSE has issued an advisory for this on December 30:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/QD3TW7GD6PF3ZSKL2TJG3Z462FFFLJND/

Comment 4 Thomas Andrews 2022-01-02 21:53:42 CET

No installation issues. Downloaded the attachment and used Brian's test from https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29766#c24 (Thank you, Brian!)

[tom@localhost ~]$ cd log4j_t1/bin/
[tom@localhost bin]$ java -cp .:/usr/share/java/log4j/log4j-core.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j/log4j-api.jar log4j_t1.Test1L
15:51:41.134 [main] ERROR HelloWorld - Hello, World!

Seems to be working.

Validating.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK

Dave Hodgins 2022-01-03 02:52:12 CET

Keywords: (none) => advisory
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 5 Mageia Robot 2022-01-03 08:37:41 CET

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0002.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED