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Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 RHSA-2018-2867-01 Critical: Info Disclosure

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2018
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Red Hat reveals an essential upgrade for JBoss Web Server 5.0 Service Pack. Explore the security modifications and resolutions.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 7

Solution

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

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

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

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 Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 Service Pack 1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0, and includes bug fixes, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
* tomcat: Information Disclosure (CVE-2018-8037)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security impact information disclosure bug fixes Red Hat JBoss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8037 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2867-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2867
Issue date: 2018-10-03

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 6 andRed Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL 7.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security impact information disclosure bug fixes Red Hat JBoss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1607582 - CVE-2018-8037 tomcat: Due to a mishandling of close in NIO/NIO2 connectors user sessions can get mixed up

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

JWS-1028 - Failures in jBPM embedded use case with H2 database

JWS-1064 - Update the Tomcat fork of Commons DBCP 2 to 2.4.0

JWS-1065 - Tomcat Commons Pool Update

JWS-1121 - Update the internal fork of Apache Commons DBCP 2 to abc0484 (2018-08-09) to pick up some bug fixes and enhancements

JWS-1124 - ARJUNA016082: Synchronizations are not allowed! Transaction status isActionStatus.RUNNING when running jBPM engine in KIE server deployed to Tomcat

JWS-996 - Connection leak during XATransaction in high load

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