RHBA-2025:3771 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated jboss-eap/eap-rhel8-operator container image is now available for RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers.

Description

The jboss-eap/eap-rhel8-operator container image has been updated for RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers to address the following security advisory: RHSA-2025:2686 (see References)

Users of jboss-eap/eap-rhel8-operator container images are advised to upgrade to these updated images, which contain backported patches to correct these security issues, fix these bugs and add these enhancements. Users of these images are also encouraged to rebuild all container images that depend on these images.

You can find images updated by this advisory in Red Hat Container Catalog (see References).

Solution

The RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers container image provided by this update can be downloaded from the Red Hat Container Registry at registry.access.redhat.com. Installation instructions for your platform are available at Red Hat Container Catalog (see References).

Dockerfiles and scripts should be amended either to refer to this new image specifically, or to the latest image generally.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2346416 - CVE-2024-56171 libxml2: Use-After-Free in libxml2
• BZ - 2346421 - CVE-2025-24928 libxml2: Stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements of libxml2
• JBEAP-29672 - Respin EAP Operator 3.1.3

CVEs

• CVE-2024-56171
• CVE-2025-24928

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2686
• https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/registry/registry.access.redhat.com/repository/jboss-eap/eap-rhel8-operator