RHSA-2008:0832 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBEAP) 4.3 packages that fix
various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as
JBEAP 4.3.0.CP02.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat
Security Response Team.

Description

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is the market leading platform for
innovative and scalable Java applications; integrating the JBoss
Application Server, with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam into a complete,
simple enterprise solution.

This release of JBEAP for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 serves as a
replacement to JBEAP 4.3.0.CP01.

These updated packages include bug fixes and enhancements which are
detailed in the release notes. The link to the release notes is available
below in the References section.

The following security issues are also fixed with this release:

The default security policy in the JULI logging component did not restrict
access permissions to files. This could be misused by untrusted web
applications to access and write arbitrary files in the context of the
tomcat process. (CVE-2007-5342)

The property that controls the download of server classes was set to "true"
in the "production" configuration. When the class download service is bound
to an external interface, a remote attacker was able to download arbitrary
class files from the server class path. (CVE-2008-3519)

Warning: before applying this update, please backup the JBEAP
"server/[configuration]/deploy/" directory, and any other customized
configuration files.

All users of JBEAP 4.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are advised to upgrade
to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.0 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 427216 - CVE-2007-5342 Apache Tomcat's default security policy is too open
• BZ - 458713 - Tracker bug for the EAP 4.3.0.cp02 release for RHEL-5
• BZ - 458823 - CVE-2008-3519 JBossEAP allows download of non-EJB class files

CVEs

• CVE-2007-5342
• CVE-2008-3519

References

• http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/4.3.0.cp02/html-single/readme/index.html
• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low