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Red Hat JBoss EAP: RHSA-2018-1451 Important Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2018
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The latest Red Hat JBoss EAP security patch provides essential enhancements for jboss-ec2-eap, significantly affecting users operating on RHEL 6.
An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Summary

The jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
With this update, the jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.19.
Security Fix(es):
* jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525) (CVE-2017-15095)
* jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-15095) (CVE-2017-17485)
* slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)
* Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Deserialization of untrusted input vulnerability (CVE-2016-4978)
* solr: Directory traversal via Index Replication HTTP API (CVE-2017-3163)
* tomcat: Incorrect handling of empty string URL in security constraints can lead to unintended exposure of resources (CVE-2018-1304)
* jackson-databind: incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525 permits unsafe serialization via c3p0 libraries (CVE-2018-7489)
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 Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-15095; 0c0c0f from 360????? for reporting CVE-2017-17485; and Chris McCown for reporting CVE-2018-8088.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat code execution security fix important update deserialization JBoss EC2 EAP

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4978 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3163 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15095 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17485 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1304 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7489 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8088 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/8.1

Package List

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server:
Source: jboss-ec2-eap-7.5.20-1.Final_redhat_1.ep6.el6.src.rpm
noarch: jboss-ec2-eap-7.5.20-1.Final_redhat_1.ep6.el6.noarch.rpm jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.5.20-1.Final_redhat_1.ep6.el6.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1451-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1451
Issue date: 2018-05-14

Topic

An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss EnterpriseApplication Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.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 Red Hat code execution security fix important update deserialization JBoss EC2 EAP

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1379207 - CVE-2016-4978 Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Deserialization of untrusted input vulnerability

1454783 - CVE-2017-3163 solr: Directory traversal via Index Replication HTTP API

1506612 - CVE-2017-15095 jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525)

1528565 - CVE-2017-17485 jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-15095)

1548289 - CVE-2018-1304 tomcat: Incorrect handling of empty string URL in security constraints can lead to unintended exposure of resources

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

1549276 - CVE-2018-7489 jackson-databind: incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525 permits unsafe serialization via c3p0 libraries

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