HADOOP-17917. Backport HADOOP-15993 to branch-3.2 which address CVE-2014-4611. Contributed by Brahma Reddy Battula.

hadoop-project/pom.xml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     <!-- Version number for xerces used by JDiff -->
     <xerces.jdiff.version>2.11.0</xerces.jdiff.version>
 
-    <kafka.version>0.8.2.1</kafka.version>
+    <kafka.version>2.4.0</kafka.version>
 
     <hadoop.assemblies.version>3.2.4-SNAPSHOT</hadoop.assemblies.version>
     <commons-daemon.version>1.0.13</commons-daemon.version>