RHSA-2016:0040 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.1.2 that fixes one
security issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical 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 Operations Network provides an integrated solution for managing
JBoss middleware, other network infrastructure, and applications built
on Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). The Apache Commons
Collections library provides new interfaces, implementations, and
utilities to extend the features of the Java Collections Framework.

It was found that the Apache commons-collections library permitted code
execution when deserializing objects involving a specially constructed
chain of classes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute
arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using the
commons-collections library. (CVE-2015-7501)

Further information about this security flaw may be found at:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2045023

All users of JBoss Operations Network 3.1.2 as provided from the Red Hat
Customer Portal are advised to apply this update. This patch supersedes
the 3.2.1 Hotfix 10.

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 JBoss Operations Network installation (including its databases,
applications, configuration files, the JBoss Operations Network server's
file system directory, and so on).

Note: This update provides fixes for the server, agent, and core GUI
components of Red Hat JBoss Operations Network. It is recommended to apply
all the patches provided by this update.

Affected Products

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

Fixes

• BZ - 1279330 - CVE-2015-7501 apache-commons-collections: InvokerTransformer code execution during deserialisation

CVEs

• CVE-2015-7501

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=em&downloadType=securityPatches&version=3.1.2