RHSA-2017:0179 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat JBoss Fuse and A-MQ 6.3 Rollup 1, which fixes one security issue and includes several bug fixes, is now available from the Red Hat 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 Fuse, based on Apache ServiceMix, provides a small-footprint, flexible, open source enterprise service bus and integration platform. Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, based on Apache ActiveMQ, is a standards compliant messaging system that is tailored for use in mission critical applications.

This patch is an update to Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3. It includes several bug fixes, which are documented in the readme.txt file included with the patch files.

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that Apache PDFBox parses different XML data within PDF files such as XMP and the initialization of the XML parsers did not protect against XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerabilities. (CVE-2016-2175)

Refer to the readme.txt file included with the patch files for installation instructions.

Solution

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

• Red Hat Fuse 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1340396 - CVE-2016-2175 pdfbox: XML External Entity vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2016-2175
• CVE-2016-4970

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=jboss.fuse&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.3.0
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=jboss.amq&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.3.0