Upgrade jackson to 2.9.8
There is a vulerability in prior versions, per the following CVE:
MODIFY
gradle/dependencies.gradle
gradle/dependencies.gradle
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ ext {
slf4j : "1.7.25",
guava : "20.0", // Last version to support Java 7
- jackson : "2.6.3", // This is a transitive dependency for the tracer.
- // Use an old version to not force an upgrade for others using tracer as a dependency.
+ jackson : "2.9.8", // https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000873
spock : "1.2-groovy-$spockGroovyVer",
groovy : groovyVer,

Upgrade jackson to 2.9.8

There is a vulerability in prior versions, per the following CVE: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000873