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Apache Log4j 2
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Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it
I don't think that's a good example. While Apache devs are volunteers and Microsoft devs are employees, they were criticized for their slow response time and seeming lack of urgency until it was far too late.
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...
- Create an alternative async logger implementation using JCTools
- Log4j requesting feedback on which modules/features to drop
- The Unsung Heroes of Open Source: The Dedicated Maintainers Behind Lesser-Known Projects
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Studying Log4Shell
The official website. The vulnerability was introduced in 2.0-beta7 which was released in 2013.
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The Dedicated Maintainers Behind Lesser-Known Open Source Projects
However, there are many open source projects that are widely used but not well-known, including cURL, ImageMagick, MyCLI, Homebrew, Apache Log4j, and OpenSSL. This article will take a closer look at these unsung heroes of the open source world. I do not want to give them a business model or financial advice in this article. This largely depends on the author's personal experience and values. I just want to raise more awareness about these open source projects.
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Apache POI Setup Logging Error
What you need is log4j-core, what you downloaded is some kind of connector between log4j and JUL. Tbh I don't know what JUL is, but that's not important. You can get log4j-core on from the official website - https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ or in maven repo. In case you're not using maven, I highly, highly recommend you using it for managing your dependencies.
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Log4Shell Still Has Sting in the Tail
> When it was first revealed in early December 2021, the Log4Shell bug was described as one of the most severe security vulnerabilities ever.
> The Apache Software Foundation, which maintains the open-source tool, quickly released a patch...
Apache horribly mismanaged this and did not release a patch until it was already widely known and being exploited in the wild. They also messed up and had to release several subsequent patches to actually fix the vulnerability.
Remember: this vulnerability was disclosed to them in November.
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency open-sourced a new tool named Scuba
Think back to the Log4J event, were you affected? (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2)
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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase
Would an atomic mutable subclass cache (not sure what it's used for, downcasting?) be unnecessary in a language built around static rather than dynamic dispatch by default, like C/C++/Rust and perhaps Go? Or would it still speed up dynamically dispatched code, but is less practical or worthwhile so it isn't used in practice? (Though Rust's Arc also suffers from atomic contention similar to this blog post, when used across dozens of threads: https://pkolaczk.github.io/server-slower-than-a-laptop/)
Also it's somewhat ironic that the JVM source code (https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u/blob/jdk8u352-b07/hotspot/s...) says "This code is rarely used, so simplicity is a virtue here" at the site of a bottleneck.
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Minecraft 1.8.9 Consistently Crashes after 5 Mins
Use the latest JDK (Developer's Kit) or JRE (Runtime Environment) for Java 8, compiled and distributed by AdoptOpenJDK from the official Read-Only source.
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How are LTS updates made?
The majority of the work on 8u, 11u, 17u releases happens in OpenJDK upstream, in so called JDK Updates Projects, by engineers from the interested JDK vendors. You can get a peek who does this kind of work from the repository histories, for example the most recent 11.0.13 is done by engineers from Red Hat (including yours truly), SAP, Azul, Microsoft, BellSoft, Tencent, Amazon, Alibaba, IBM, ARM, Google.
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Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide
> whatever it returned would just get inserted as a string into the log output, no big deal.
Once you can inject anything that gets resolved, you have an information disclosure vulnerability unrelated to the RCE.
If I can just DNS resolve any ${env} variable from the JVM, a lot of systems are compromised by just exposing the env or system variables configured for runtime.
Just getting your $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY env vars can compromise your bucket (sure, that is a really unsafe setup now, but it was almost the standard a few years ago over configuring it explicitly).
So a logging system which will merely resolve a hostname derived from a variable was bad enough to compromise many systems.
The serialization loophole was fixed in a jdk8 update.
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u/commit/006e84fc77a582552e71...
But even with that in place, the information disclosure of java System or env properties is bad enough to break actual systems in prod.
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Log4j RCE Found
> Turns out, by including "." in some part of the URL to this remote class, Log4j lets off its guard & simply looks up to that server and dynamically loads the class file.
No it doesn't. That was disabled by default in 2009, and was disabled by default in every release of Java 8 or later: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u/commit/006e84fc77a582552e71...
Unless i am mistaken, i don't believe the attack as described by LunaSec actually works against a default-configured JVM released any time in the last decade.
What are some alternatives?
Logback - The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java.
jdk8u_jdk
reload4j - reload4j is a drop-in replacement for log4j 1.2.17
apache-log4j-poc - Apache Log4j 远程代码执行
tinylog - tinylog is a lightweight logging framework for Java, Kotlin, Scala, and Android
openjdk8-upstream-binaries - Archived release scripts/releases of OpenJDK 8u project builds. Superseded by Eclipse Temurin releases.
Logstash - Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data
syft - CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
SLF4J - Simple Logging Facade for Java
lunasec - LunaSec - Dependency Security Scanner that automatically notifies you about vulnerabilities like Log4Shell or node-ipc in your Pull Requests and Builds. Protect yourself in 30 seconds with the LunaTrace GitHub App: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec/
kibana - Your window into the Elastic Stack
marshalsec