Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1194 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2013-09-03
Updated:
2019-02-18

RHSA-2013:1194 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: jbossweb security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 that
fixes one security issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
important 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

JBoss Web is the web container, based on Apache Tomcat, in Red Hat
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. It provides a single deployment
platform for the JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet technologies.

A flaw was found in the way the DiskFileItem class handled NULL characters
in file names. A remote attacker able to supply a serialized instance of
the DiskFileItem class, which will be deserialized on a server, could use
this flaw to write arbitrary content to any location on the server that is
accessible to the user running the application server process.
(CVE-2013-2185)

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

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 as
provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this update.

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update). Before applying this update, back up your
existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and
deployed applications.

The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 974813 - CVE-2013-2185 Tomcat/JBossWeb: Arbitrary file upload via deserialization

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.