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Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 RHSA-2018:2470-01 Important: Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2018
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Crucial announcement regarding Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1, focusing on major security vulnerabilities and critical bug resolutions.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server installation (including all applications and configuration files).

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache HTTP Server, the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, Apache Tomcat Connector (mod_jk), JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), Hibernate, and the Tomcat Native library.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1, and includes bug fixes, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable 'supportsCredentials' for all origins (CVE-2018-8014)
* tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP invalid response (CVE-2018-8019)
* tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP responses can allow clients to authenticate with revoked certificates (CVE-2018-8020)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: * OpenSSL (1.0.2n) * APR (1.6.3)
CVE-2018-8019 and CVE-2018-8020 were discovered by Coty Sutherland (Red Hat).

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security advisory Red Hat important update JBoss service pack CORS filter issue OCSP response issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8014 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8019 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8020 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=webserver&downloadType=securityPatches&version=3.1 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_web_server/3.1/html-single/red_hat_jboss_web_server_3.1_service_pack_4_release_notes/

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2470-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2470
Issue date: 2018-08-16

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.Red Hat Product Security has rated this release 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 important update JBoss service pack CORS filter issue OCSP response issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1579611 - CVE-2018-8014 tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable 'supportsCredentials' for all origins

1581569 - CVE-2018-8020 tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP responses can allow clients to authenticate with revoked certificates

1583998 - CVE-2018-8019 tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP invalid response

5. JIRA issues fixed (https://redhat.atlassian.net/jira/projects):

JWS-1042 - version.txt information is outdated

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