Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-618
Advisory Released Date: 2015-12-14
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-12-14
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                            Important
                        
                        
                        
                            Issue Overview:
                            
                                
                        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 or yum update --advisory ALAS-2015-618 to update your system.
                            New Packages:
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