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Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 Important Security Update for Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial announcement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application regarding a critical memory drain problem. Implement the security patch immediately!
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8

Solution

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

You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.

For details about how to apply this update, see: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.
This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.
Security Fix(es):
* wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL (CVE-2020-25644)
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

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25644 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/ https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/

Package List

Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 for RHEL 6 Server:
Source: eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap.src.rpm
x86_64: eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap.x86_64.rpm eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-debuginfo-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap.src.rpm
x86_64: eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap.x86_64.rpm eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-debuginfo-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 for BaseOS-8:
Source: eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.src.rpm
x86_64: eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.x86_64.rpm eap7-wildfly-openssl-linux-x86_64-debuginfo-1.0.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.x86_64.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-2020:4256-01
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4256
Issue date: 2020-10-14

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise ApplicationPlatform 7.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat important memory leak application jboss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 for BaseOS-8 - x86_64

Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 for RHEL 6 Server - x86_64

Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.3 for RHEL 7 Server - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1885485 - CVE-2020-25644 wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL

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