Bug#858914: CVE-2017-5929: serialization vulnerability in SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver

[Guido Günther]

Package: logback
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for logback.

CVE-2017-5929[0]:
| QOS.ch Logback before 1.2.0 has a serialization vulnerability affecting
| the SocketServer and ServerSocketReceiver components.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5929
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5929
Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.