Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20175638000
Revision Date:2017-03-10Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-5638 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - untriaged.
Description:The Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 has incorrect exception handling and error-message generation during file-upload attempts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted Content-Type, Content-Disposition, or Content-Length HTTP header, as exploited in the wild in March 2017 with a Content-Type header containing a #cmd= string.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-5638
Platform(s):Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'libstruts1.2-java' package in trusty is not affected.
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