RHSA-2016:1219 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BRMS.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat JBoss BRMS is a business rules management system for the management, storage, creation, modification, and deployment of JBoss Rules.

Security Fix(es):

• A denial of service flaw was found in the way Spring processes inline DTD declarations. A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted XML file that would cause out-of-memory errors when parsed. (CVE-2015-3192)

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 - 1239002 - CVE-2015-3192 Spring Framework: denial-of-service attack with XML input

CVEs

• CVE-2015-3192

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=brms&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.2.0