RHSA-2018:1451 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform 6.4 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

The 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 jboss-ec2-eap package has been updated to ensure
compatibility with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.19.

Security Fix(es):

• jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525) (CVE-2017-15095)
• jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-15095) (CVE-2017-17485)
• slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)
• Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Deserialization of untrusted input vulnerability (CVE-2016-4978)
• solr: Directory traversal via Index Replication HTTP API (CVE-2017-3163)
• tomcat: Incorrect handling of empty string URL in security constraints can lead to unintended exposure of resources (CVE-2018-1304)
• jackson-databind: incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525 permits unsafe serialization via c3p0 libraries (CVE-2018-7489)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Liao Xinxi (NSFOCUS) for reporting CVE-2017-15095; 0c0c0f from 360观星实验室 for reporting CVE-2017-17485; and Chris McCown for reporting CVE-2018-8088.

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 6.4 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 i386
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1379207 - CVE-2016-4978 Apache ActiveMQ Artemis: Deserialization of untrusted input vulnerability
• BZ - 1454783 - CVE-2017-3163 solr: Directory traversal via Index Replication HTTP API
• BZ - 1506612 - CVE-2017-15095 jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525)
• BZ - 1528565 - CVE-2017-17485 jackson-databind: Unsafe deserialization due to incomplete black list (incomplete fix for CVE-2017-15095)
• BZ - 1548289 - CVE-2018-1304 tomcat: Incorrect handling of empty string URL in security constraints can lead to unintended exposure of resources
• BZ - 1548909 - CVE-2018-8088 slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution
• BZ - 1549276 - CVE-2018-7489 jackson-databind: incomplete fix for CVE-2017-7525 permits unsafe serialization via c3p0 libraries

CVEs

• CVE-2016-4978
• CVE-2017-3163
• CVE-2017-15095
• CVE-2017-17485
• CVE-2018-1304
• CVE-2018-7489
• CVE-2018-8088

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/?version=6.4