Synopsis

Moderate: resteasy security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Updated resteasy packages that fix one security issue are now available for
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4,
5, and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

Description

RESTEasy provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful web services
and RESTful Java applications.

It was found that RESTEasy was vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE)
attacks. If a remote attacker submitted a request containing an external
XML entity to a RESTEasy endpoint, the entity would be resolved, allowing
the attacker to read files accessible to the user running the application
server. This flaw affected DOM (Document Object Model) Document and JAXB
(Java Architecture for XML Binding) input. (CVE-2012-0818)

Note: The fix for CVE-2012-0818 is not enabled by default. This update adds
a new configuration option to disable entity expansion in RESTEasy. If
applications on your server expose RESTEasy XML endpoints, a
resteasy.document.expand.entity.references configuration snippet must be
added to their web.xml file to disable entity expansion in RESTEasy. Refer
to Red Hat Bugzilla bug 785631 for details.

Warning: Before applying this update, back up your JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform's "jboss-as/server/[PROFILE]/deploy/" directory, along
with all other customized configuration files.

Users of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.2 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4, 5, and 6 should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct
this issue. The JBoss server process must be restarted for this update to
take effect.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from RHUI 5 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from RHUI 5 i386
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 i386
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 785631 - CVE-2012-0818 RESTEasy: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw

CVEs

• CVE-2012-0818
• CVE-2011-5245

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785631

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from RHUI 5

SRPM
x86_64
i386

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6

SRPM
resteasy-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 3a4aa131006b3f037162518ce8d3881cf20627e5fad57dc0178d16f51a3f2c34
x86_64
resteasy-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f6cf36beb96b4eba2422aaa299680bb5998f3bb2e666d1440e17402778064556
resteasy-examples-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 66e767ff2fb833d7110ada14a4cfca2855dd0e6f0a06ee5bcaa3f164b36773aa
resteasy-javadoc-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 87ce316af43982a162478015b480121e4519cde5bb925f9b7dfe4d15e743a6a7
resteasy-manual-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 99aaf805ad64df41f06723f68dc403f1c4ff9a8e03e56d08d1ccca29c53e19d5
i386
resteasy-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f6cf36beb96b4eba2422aaa299680bb5998f3bb2e666d1440e17402778064556
resteasy-examples-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 66e767ff2fb833d7110ada14a4cfca2855dd0e6f0a06ee5bcaa3f164b36773aa
resteasy-javadoc-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 87ce316af43982a162478015b480121e4519cde5bb925f9b7dfe4d15e743a6a7
resteasy-manual-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 99aaf805ad64df41f06723f68dc403f1c4ff9a8e03e56d08d1ccca29c53e19d5

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5

SRPM
resteasy-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: ee147792cda48183d01057a03330a79257b1d81ce6d7ea8620db591b98068b31
x86_64
resteasy-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f56fa438a6f2224e0d202a6b8de6a0932381c09aa5fc55eaa78301f156bd7b8f
resteasy-examples-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: e8412efaa309aa52bfb86f39ac3009e5d0033e3c9f568da90436f2443e3d038e
resteasy-javadoc-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ce177e7e41c6651fbebe4b3ac6235cb0a2f79482a9ee9067ae36391be84351b1
resteasy-manual-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 9ebfc64848b1f317822f255d08e9bcb72c85e69ff4965836ab0884cdc68ca0f6
i386
resteasy-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f56fa438a6f2224e0d202a6b8de6a0932381c09aa5fc55eaa78301f156bd7b8f
resteasy-examples-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: e8412efaa309aa52bfb86f39ac3009e5d0033e3c9f568da90436f2443e3d038e
resteasy-javadoc-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ce177e7e41c6651fbebe4b3ac6235cb0a2f79482a9ee9067ae36391be84351b1
resteasy-manual-1.2.1-10.CP02_patch01.1.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 9ebfc64848b1f317822f255d08e9bcb72c85e69ff4965836ab0884cdc68ca0f6