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Red Hat JBoss 6.4 RHSA-2018-2740-01 Critical Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Announcement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 classified as significant, targeting multiple security vulnerabilities.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution

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

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

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.21 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.20, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* hibernate-validator: Privilege escalation when running under the security manager (CVE-2017-7536)
* guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)
* picketlink: The fix for CVE-2017-2582 breaks the feature of attribute replacement with system property in picketlink.xml (CVE-2017-2582)
* jbossweb: tomcat: A bug in the UTF-8 decoder can lead to DoS (CVE-2018-1336)
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.
The CVE-2017-2582 issue was discovered by Hynek Mlnarik (Red Hat) and the CVE-2017-7536 issue was discovered by Gunnar Morling (Red Hat).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical privilege escalation Red Hat JBoss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2582 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7536 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1336 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10237 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/6.4/ https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.4

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2740-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2740
Issue date: 2018-09-24

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise ApplicationPlatform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.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 denial of service critical privilege escalation Red Hat JBoss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1261190 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade jboss-ejb-client from 1.0.40 to 1.0.41

1410481 - CVE-2017-2582 picketlink, keycloak: SAML request parser replaces special strings with system properties

1465573 - CVE-2017-7536 hibernate-validator: Privilege escalation when running under the security manager

1570200 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade JBoss Modules from 1.3.10 to 1.3.111573391 - CVE-2018-10237 guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service

1578830 - (6.4.z) Upgrade hibernate-validator from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4

1580440 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade xnio from 3.0.16 to 3.0.17

1594389 - [GSS](6.4.z) The fix for CVE-2017-2582 breaks the feature of attribute replacement with system property in picketlink.xml

1602226 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade xerces from 2.9.1.redhat-6 to 2.9.1.redhat-8

1606334 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade JBoss VFS from 3.2.12 to 3.2.13

1607591 - CVE-2018-1336 tomcat: A bug in the UTF-8 decoder can lead to DoS

1610355 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade HornetQ from 2.3.25.SP24 to 2.3.25.SP28

1610742 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade JBoss Web from 7.5.28 to 7.5.29

1611770 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade Ironjacamar from 1.0.41 to 1.0.42

1614448 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade Jackson from 1.9.9.redhat-6 to 1.9.9.redhat-7

1615347 - [GSS](6.4.z) Upgrade PicketLink from 2.5.4.SP18-redhat-1 to 2.5.4.SP18-redhat-2

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