USN-1298-1: Apache Commons Daemon vulnerability

12 December 2011

Apache Commons Daemon would allow unintended access to files over the network.

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Wilfried Weissmann discovered that Apache Commons Daemon incorrectly
dropped capabilities after starting. A remote attacker could possibly use
this flaw to read certain files, bypassing the intended permissions.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04

After a standard system update you need to restart applications which use
Apache Commons Daemon, such as the Jetty web server, to make all the
necessary changes.

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