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Red Hat JBoss EAP 5.2 Advisory RHSA-2018:1607 Critical: DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2018
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Red Hat JBoss EAP 5.2 security enhancements resolve significant vulnerabilities affecting software performance. Ensure safety by applying latest updates.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterp...

Solution

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

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

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for JBoss invoker in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0.
Security Fix(es):
* jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker. (CVE-2017-12149)
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 Joao F M Figueiredo for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical arbitrary code execution risk application patch Red Hat JBoss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12149 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/8.1

Package List

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 Server:
Source: jbossas-5.2.0-24.ep5.el5.src.rpm
noarch: jbossas-5.2.0-24.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm jbossas-client-5.2.0-24.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm jbossas-messaging-5.2.0-24.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm jbossas-ws-native-5.2.0-24.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 Server:
Source: jbossas-5.2.0-24.ep5.el6.src.rpm
noarch: jbossas-5.2.0-24.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm jbossas-client-5.2.0-24.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm jbossas-messaging-5.2.0-24.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm jbossas-ws-native-5.2.0-24.ep5.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-2018:1607-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1607
Issue date: 2018-05-17

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise ApplicationPlatform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat JBoss EnterpriseApplication Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical arbitrary code execution risk application patch Red Hat JBoss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 Server - noarch

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1486220 - CVE-2017-12149 jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker.

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