Issued:
2016-10-17
Updated:
2016-10-17

RHSA-2016:2071 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.11 update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An 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 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 Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.11 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.10, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.11 Release Notes, linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

  • A denial of service vulnerability was identified in Commons FileUpload that occurred when the length of the multipart boundary was just below the size of the buffer (4096 bytes) used to read the uploaded file if the boundary was the typical tens of bytes long. (CVE-2016-3092)

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 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

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

Affected Products

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1349468 - CVE-2016-3092 tomcat: Usage of vulnerable FileUpload package can result in denial of service

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