Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0042 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2016-01-14
Updated:
2016-01-14

RHSA-2016:0042 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.1.5 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.1.5, which fixes one security issue, 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 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

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 release of Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.1.5 serves as a replacement for
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.1.2, and includes bug fixes and enhancements,
which are documented in the README.txt file included with the patch files.

The following security issue is also fixed with this release:

It was found that batik was vulnerable to XML External Entity attacks when
parsing SVG files. A remote attacker able to send malicious SVG content to
the affected server could use this flaw to read files accessible to the
user running the application server, and potentially perform other more
advanced XXE attacks. (CVE-2015-0250)

All users of Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.1.2 as provided from the Red Hat
Customer Portal are advised to upgrade to Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.1.5.

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; 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 - 1203762 - CVE-2015-0250 batik: XML External Entity (XXE) injection in SVG parsing

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