Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0454 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2014-04-30
Updated:
2014-04-30

RHSA-2014:0454 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.2 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

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java
applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

It was found that the secure processing feature of Xalan-Java had
insufficient restrictions defined for certain properties and features.
A remote attacker able to provide Extensible Stylesheet Language
Transformations (XSLT) content to be processed by an application using
Xalan-Java could use this flaw to bypass the intended constraints of the
secure processing feature. Depending on the components available in the
classpath, this could lead to arbitrary remote code execution in the
context of the application server running the application that uses
Xalan-Java. (CVE-2014-0107)

All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.2 as
provided from the Red Hat Customer Portal are advised to apply this update.
The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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.

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1080248 - CVE-2014-0107 Xalan-Java: insufficient constraints in secure processing feature

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