Thanks Trevor; may be a good time to revive our online meetings to talk through this one..
I could find time during the holiday break pretty much any day; if anyone else is interested let us know if there's a good time to chat. On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 4:26 PM Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many of you have probably become aware of Log4j's vulnerability to > CVE-2021-44228 recently. > > Though Mahout is a sleepy project, we are vigilant and want you to know we > are aware of the issue and have been monitoring. > > First, let me assure you that since Mahout (like over 90% of log4j users) > is on version 1.x it is not vulnerable to the JDNI remote execution attack > [1]. That said, 1.x was set for EOL in 2015, so it's probably time to > update that. I've made a JIRA ticket (MAHOUT-2140)[2]. > > The update isn't too complex, but it's also not trivial, and most > importantly it's not critical so you're not endangering anything running > Mahout, and we'll hopefully get it in for the next release in a couple of > months. > > Hope this helps everyone feel secure going into their holiday season. > > ~Trevor > > [1] http://slf4j.org/log4shell.html > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MAHOUT/issues/MAHOUT-2140 >
