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Red Hat: RHSA-2020:4312-01 Important: Jackson Databind XML Threat

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2020
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Crucial security patch for rh-maven35-jackson-databind within Red Hat Software Collections. Essential information enclosed.
An update for rh-maven35-jackson-databind is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Summary

The jackson-databind package provides general data-binding functionality for Jackson, which works on top of Jackson core streaming API.
Security Fix(es):
* jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE) (CVE-2020-25649)
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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25649 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-maven35-jackson-databind-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc-2.7.6-2.12.el7.noarch.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4312-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Issue date: 2020-10-22

Topic

An update for rh-maven35-jackson-databind is now available for Red HatSoftware Collections.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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1887664 - CVE-2020-25649 jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)

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