Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-4259-1

USN-4259-1: Apache Solr vulnerability

Publication date

29 January 2020

Overview

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

Releases

16.04 LTS

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.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
16.04 xenial	liblucene3-contrib-java – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
	liblucene3-java – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
	libsolr-java – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
	solr-common – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
	solr-jetty – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
	solr-tomcat – 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1

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References

CVE-2017-12629

CVE-2017-12629