Apache Solr vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Apache Solr could be made to run programs if it received specially
crafted network traffic.

Software Description

* lucene-solr - Full-text search engine library for Java -
additional libraries

Details

Michael Stepankin and Olga Barinova discovered that Apache Solr
was vulnerable to an XXE attack. An attacker could use this
vulnerability to remotely execute code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
liblucene3-contrib-java - 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
liblucene3-java - 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
libsolr-java - 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
solr-common - 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
solr-jetty - 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1
solr-tomcat - 3.6.2+dfsg-8ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

* CVE-2017-12629

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