RHSA-2016:2642 - Security Advisory

Topic

The jboss-ec2-eap package that adds an enhancement is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

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

The eap7-jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

With this update, the eap7-jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.3. 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 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 - 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