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Red Hat EUS: RHSA-2018-0582-01 Critical: SLF4J Arbitrary Execution

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2018
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An urgent patch for rh-maven35-slf4j has been released to address a significant vulnerability classified as critical by the Red Hat security team.
An update for rh-maven35-slf4j is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) is a simple facade for various logging APIs allowing the end-user to plug in the desired implementation at deployment time. SLF4J also allows for a gradual migration path away from Jakarta Commons Logging (JCL).
Security Fix(es):
* slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Chris McCown for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update important arbitrary execution red hat software rh-maven35-slf4j

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8088 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven35-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-jul-to-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-log4j-over-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-ext-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-javadoc-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-jcl-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-jdk14-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-manual-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-sources-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3):
Source: rh-maven35-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-jul-to-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-log4j-over-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-ext-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-javadoc-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-jcl-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-jdk14-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm

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Severity
important
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0582-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0582
Issue date: 2018-03-26

Topic

An update for rh-maven35-slf4j is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update important arbitrary execution red hat software rh-maven35-slf4j

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1548909 - CVE-2018-8088 slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution

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