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USN-4259-1: Apache Solr vulnerability

29 January 2020

Apache Solr could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Releases

Packages

  • lucene-solr - Full-text search engine library for Java - additional libraries

Details

Michael Stepankin and Olga Barinova discovered that Apache Solr was
vulnerable to an XXE attack. An attacker could use this vulnerability to
remotely execute code.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References