Security advisory

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    "summary": "There is a potential heap buffer overflow in Apache Hadoop libhdfs native code. Opening a file path provided by user without validation may result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. Users should upgrade to Apache Hadoop 2.10.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.2 or higher.",
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      "references": [
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  "published_at": "2022-06-13T07:15:08.327+00:00"
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