Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1328 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2016-06-23
Updated:
2016-06-23

RHSA-2016:1328 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

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Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 from the Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications, which integrates the JBoss Application Server with JBoss Hibernate and JBoss Seam.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for JGroups package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2. More information about this vulnerability is available at: https://access.redhat.com/articles/2360521

Security Fix(es):

  • It was found that JGroups did not require necessary headers for encrypt and auth protocols from new nodes joining the cluster. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass security restrictions, and use this vulnerability to send and receive messages within the cluster, leading to information disclosure, message spoofing, or further possible attacks. (CVE-2016-2141)

The CVE-2016-2141 issue was discovered by Dennis Reed (Red Hat).

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied. Also, back up your existing Red
Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 installation (including all
applications and configuration files).

The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the
Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 i386
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 1313589 - CVE-2016-2141 Authorization bypass in JGroups

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6

SRPM
jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: bfc5648e8f6e97434cf484c2a2569e8f96d1efcc433420dcc7518948401be807
x86_64
jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 301314342a8b2e3f6c7dfce0b6ebf745b05835bce050214b0812c00d67b0f1f6
i386
jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 301314342a8b2e3f6c7dfce0b6ebf745b05835bce050214b0812c00d67b0f1f6

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5

SRPM
jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el5.src.rpm SHA-256: a9e2479186c790690f337cd48cbd184c2513a7fcb24e2a8b1daa85bce594654f
x86_64
jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0d616919ac4167c87ce47d2e71d91177d9edd3b251f6d531d9dae02d3bdec5c
i386
jgroups-2.6.22-2.ep5.el5.noarch.rpm SHA-256: b0d616919ac4167c87ce47d2e71d91177d9edd3b251f6d531d9dae02d3bdec5c

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