USN-5222-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2021-44832)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2022-01-11 20:42 – Updated: 2026-06-01 07:03 – Source website
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Summary
apache-log4j2 vulnerabilities
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It was discovered that Apache Log4j 2 was vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) attack when configured to use a JDBC Appender with a JNDI LDAP data source URI. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2021-44832)

Hideki Okamoto and Guy Lederfein discovered that Apache Log4j 2 did not protect against infinite recursion in lookup evaluation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Apache Log4j 2 to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-45105)

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  "modified": "2026-06-01T07:03:53Z",
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