RHSA-2016:2640 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated packages that provide Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 that fix several bugs and add various enhancements that are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 an application server that serves as a middleware platform and is built on open standards and compliant with the Java EE 7 specification.

This release serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.2. It includes bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 Release Notes linked to in the References section for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• It was discovered that a long URL sent to EAP 7 Server operating as a reverse proxy with default buffer sizes causes a Denial of Service. (CVE-2016-7046)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

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

Fixes

• BZ - 1376646 - CVE-2016-7046 undertow: Long URL proxy request lead to java.nio.BufferOverflowException and DoS

CVEs

• CVE-2016-7046

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important