RHSA-2014:1892 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.0.3 roll up patch 1, which fixes two security
issues, several bugs, and adds various enhancements, is now available from
the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.

Description

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is a business rules and processes management system
for the management, storage, creation, modification, and deployment of
JBoss rules and BPMN2-compliant business processes.

This roll up patch serves as a cumulative upgrade for Red Hat JBoss BPM
Suite 6.0.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. It includes various
bug fixes, which are listed in the README file included with the
patch files.

The following security issues are fixed with this release:

It was discovered that Jakarta Commons HttpClient incorrectly extracted the
host name from an X.509 certificate subject's Common Name (CN) field.
A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof an SSL server
using a specially crafted X.509 certificate. (CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577)

The CVE-2012-6153 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat
Product Security.

All users of Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.0.3 as provided from the Red Hat
Customer Portal are advised to apply this roll up patch.

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must
log in to download the update). Before applying the update, back up your
existing installation, including all applications, configuration files,
databases and database settings, and so on.

It is recommended to halt the server by stopping the JBoss Application
Server process before installing this update, and then after installing
the update, restart the server by starting the JBoss Application Server
process.

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Middleware Text-Only Advisories for MIDDLEWARE 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1129074 - CVE-2014-3577 Apache HttpComponents client / Apache CXF: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-6153 fix
• BZ - 1129916 - CVE-2012-6153 Apache HttpComponents client / Apache CXF: SSL hostname verification bypass, incomplete CVE-2012-5783 fix

CVEs

• CVE-2012-6153
• CVE-2014-3577

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=bpm.suite&downloadType=distributions&version=6.0.3