UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4974

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4974

    Published: 13 Jul 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-4974

    Summary:

    Details: Apache Qpid AMQP 0-x JMS client before 6.0.4 and JMS (AMQP 1.0) before 0.10.0 does not restrict the use of classes available on the classpath, which might allow remote authenticated users with permission to send messages to deserialize arbitrary objects and execute arbitrary code by leveraging a crafted serialized object in a JMS ObjectMessage that is handled by the getObject function.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4974, http://qpid.apache.org/components/jms/security.html, http://qpid.apache.org/components/jms/security-0-x.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/02/1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4974

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qpid-cpp

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.16-9build1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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