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Red Hat Mobile App Platform 4.2.1 RHSA-2017-0060-01 Minor Stack Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2017
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Security bulletin for Red Hat Mobile Application Framework 4.2.1 targeting multiple vulnerabilities and improving safeguarding protocols.
Updated packages that provide Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2.1, fixed several bugs, and added various enhancements that are now available from the Customer Portal

Solution

A link to download the ZIP file and RPM packages provided by this update can be found in the references section of this errata.

Summary

Red Hat Mobile Application Platform (RHMAP) 4.2 is delivered as a set of Docker-formatted container images. In addition to the images, several components are delivered as RPMs:
* OpenShift templates used to deploy an RHMAP Core and MBaaS * A diagnostic tool called 'fh-system-dump-tool', which can be used to collect information about the RHMAP cluster in case of problems
The following RPMs are included in the RHMAP container images, and are provided here only for completeness:
* The Nagios server, which is used to monitor the status of RHMAP components, is installed inside the Nagios container image. * PhantomJS, a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API, is installed inside the MBaaS and Supercore container images. * 'mod_authnz_external', an Apache module used for authentication, is installed inside the httpd container image.
A ZIP package containing client SDKs is also delivered as an optional download. The same ZIP file is also provided inside the 'rhmap42/fh-sdks' container image.
This release serves as an update for Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2.0. It includes bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2.1 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.
Security Fix(es):
* An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the memcached binary protocol. An attacker could create a specially crafted message that would cause the memcached server to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8704)
* An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the memcached binary protocol. An attacker could create a specially crafted message that would cause the memcached server to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8705)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update software enhancement heap overflow red hat mobile application platform SDK

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8704 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8705 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/316/

Package List

Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2:
Source: rhmap-fh-openshift-templates-1.0.0-5.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rhmap-fh-openshift-templates-1.0.0-5.el7.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0059-01
Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0059
Issue date: 2017-01-11
Cross references: RHSA-2016:25626

Topic

Updated packages that provide Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2.1,fixed several bugs, and added various enhancements that are now availablefrom the Customer Portal.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update software enhancement heap overflow red hat mobile application platform SDK

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1390510 - CVE-2016-8704 memcached: Server append/prepend remote code execution

1390511 - CVE-2016-8705 memcached: Server update remote code execution

6. JIRA issues fixed (https://issues.redhat.com/):

RHMAP-11023 - Build RPM containing MBaaS and Core templates for RHMAP 4.2.1

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