RHSA-2018:1575 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid.

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 Data Grid is a distributed in-memory data grid, based on Infinispan.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7.2.0 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7.1.2, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

• slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8088)

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 Chris McCown for reporting this issue.

Solution

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

Before applying the update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Data Grid installation (including databases, configuration files, and so on).

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Data Grid Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1548909 - CVE-2018-8088 slf4j: Deserialisation vulnerability in EventData constructor can allow for arbitrary code execution

CVEs

• CVE-2018-8088

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=data.grid&downloadType=distributions&version=7.2.0
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_JBoss_Data_Grid/