Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-618
Advisory Release Date: 2015-12-14 10:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-12-13 14:19 Pacific
It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the commons-collections library.
Affected Packages:
apache-commons-collections
Issue Correction:
Run yum update apache-commons-collections to update your system.
noarch:
apache-commons-collections-testframework-javadoc-3.2.1-11.9.amzn1.noarch
apache-commons-collections-3.2.1-11.9.amzn1.noarch
apache-commons-collections-javadoc-3.2.1-11.9.amzn1.noarch
apache-commons-collections-testframework-3.2.1-11.9.amzn1.noarch
src:
apache-commons-collections-3.2.1-11.9.amzn1.src