Executive Summary

Summary
Title Apache Standard Taglibs vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2551-1 First vendor Publication 2015-03-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-03-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Apache Standard Taglibs loaded external XML entities.

Software Description: - jakarta-taglibs-standard: Implementation of JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

Details:

David Jorm discovered that the Apache Standard Taglibs incorrectly handled external XML entities. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or perform other external XML entity attacks.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
libjakarta-taglibs-standard-java 1.1.2-2ubuntu1.14.10.1
libjstl1.1-java 1.1.2-2ubuntu1.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libjakarta-taglibs-standard-java 1.1.2-2ubuntu1.14.04.1
libjstl1.1-java 1.1.2-2ubuntu1.14.04.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2551-1
CVE-2015-0254

Package Information:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jakarta-taglibs-standard/1.1.2-2ubuntu1.14.10.1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jakarta-taglibs-standard/1.1.2-2ubuntu1.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2551-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 2

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Date Informations
2015-04-02 13:28:11
  • Multiple Updates
2015-03-30 21:25:48
  • First insertion