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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4146-1 plexus-utils -- security update

Date Reported:

20 Mar 2018

Affected Packages:

plexus-utils

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000487.

More information:

Charles Duffy discovered that the Commandline class in the utilities for the Plexus framework performs insufficient quoting of double-encoded strings, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.5.15-4+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.5.15-4+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your plexus-utils packages.

For the detailed security status of plexus-utils please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/plexus-utils