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Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.4 Significant Update: Important Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant upgrade has been released for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform version 6.4 to mitigate critical vulnerabilities.
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4

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

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.
This asynchronous patch is an update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4. All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.
Security Fix(es):
* jbossweb: tomcat: multiple requests with invalid payload length in a WebSocket frame could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-13935)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, see the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS security fix importance websocket Red Hat JBoss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14384 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.4 https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/6.4/

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3731-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3731
Issue date: 2020-09-14

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise ApplicationPlatform 6.4.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 DoS security fix importance websocket Red Hat JBoss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1875176 - CVE-2020-14384 jbossweb: Incomplete fix of CVE-2020-13935 for WebSocket in JBossWeb could lead to DoS

1875869 - Tracker bug for the EAP 6.4.23 text only security update

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