Issued:
2016-06-23
Updated:
2016-06-23

RHSA-2016:1332 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 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 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 7 is a platform for Java applications based on Wildfly.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for JGroups package in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 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, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 i386
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

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

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7

SRPM
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 15638918ffe36f560a5dbdab86e21ad553c068352a08d5fbd4705161bea5d748
x86_64
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: a3ea88286f6c7c297c4387a1d2bbc2d1c3184c959ce92ae278addf8411e3e589

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6

SRPM
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 325f764107e1bb5c2c2ca93dba85d0f151d6a7f7616bd2e5c3d8c1e1aeb94b5f
x86_64
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d809fcf785cda4b1805867f83a827162cc33a41d120878491e2ff7ac29933903
i386
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d809fcf785cda4b1805867f83a827162cc33a41d120878491e2ff7ac29933903

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7

SRPM
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 15638918ffe36f560a5dbdab86e21ad553c068352a08d5fbd4705161bea5d748
x86_64
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: a3ea88286f6c7c297c4387a1d2bbc2d1c3184c959ce92ae278addf8411e3e589

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6

SRPM
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 325f764107e1bb5c2c2ca93dba85d0f151d6a7f7616bd2e5c3d8c1e1aeb94b5f
x86_64
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d809fcf785cda4b1805867f83a827162cc33a41d120878491e2ff7ac29933903
i386
eap7-jgroups-3.6.8-3.Final_redhat_3.1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d809fcf785cda4b1805867f83a827162cc33a41d120878491e2ff7ac29933903

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