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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0834 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2017-03-22
Updated:
2017-03-22

RHSA-2017:0834 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: jboss-ec2-eap package for EAP 7.0.5

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for eap7-jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 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 package provides 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 7.0.5.

Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.5 Release Notes, linked to in the References section, for information on the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

  • It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling

which could result in local privilege escalation.(CVE-2016-8656)

  • It was found that JBoss EAP 7 Header Cache was inefficient. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack.(CVE-2016-9589)

The CVE-2016-9589 issue was discovered by Gabriel Lavoie (Halogen Software).

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

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 - 1400344 - CVE-2016-8656 jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation
  • BZ - 1404782 - CVE-2016-9589 wildfly: ParseState headerValuesCache can be exploited to fill heap with garbage

CVEs

  • CVE-2016-8656
  • CVE-2016-9589

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-jboss-enterprise-application-platform/version-7.0/
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/jboss-enterprise-application-platform/
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7

SRPM
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 799588863ec3a93a508b245b7b0d613cb8c96d54f9bc2adfd179ddc50f90fae7
x86_64
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 63352e23b1e1317bd4dc772616237c17a8ee5d701f14098f9edf1a6a0745b249
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 5451d63b8c999124b8395dc35edeb8db2b7b5a4fec72a63a173df0b717cb4186

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6

SRPM
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: a87648b8525b2de0824d7ae65e956a557c15ca2fa3a0e2c1f30df7ac439a49b9
x86_64
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: cb437c2772d098050d9ddbdf6d96b36c32a23756226da609ac6566d267279fdc
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 644125cef0395358f2f7b16df1f8a88d07e68bb6d80c16eedf907b1a53fa9ff7
i386
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: cb437c2772d098050d9ddbdf6d96b36c32a23756226da609ac6566d267279fdc
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 644125cef0395358f2f7b16df1f8a88d07e68bb6d80c16eedf907b1a53fa9ff7

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7

SRPM
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 799588863ec3a93a508b245b7b0d613cb8c96d54f9bc2adfd179ddc50f90fae7
x86_64
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 63352e23b1e1317bd4dc772616237c17a8ee5d701f14098f9edf1a6a0745b249
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 5451d63b8c999124b8395dc35edeb8db2b7b5a4fec72a63a173df0b717cb4186

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6

SRPM
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: a87648b8525b2de0824d7ae65e956a557c15ca2fa3a0e2c1f30df7ac439a49b9
x86_64
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: cb437c2772d098050d9ddbdf6d96b36c32a23756226da609ac6566d267279fdc
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 644125cef0395358f2f7b16df1f8a88d07e68bb6d80c16eedf907b1a53fa9ff7
i386
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: cb437c2772d098050d9ddbdf6d96b36c32a23756226da609ac6566d267279fdc
eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples-7.0.5-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 644125cef0395358f2f7b16df1f8a88d07e68bb6d80c16eedf907b1a53fa9ff7

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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