- Issued:
- 2018-08-15
- Updated:
- 2018-08-15
RHSA-2018:2425 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from the Customer Portal.
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 Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on Wildfly.
This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Security Fix(es):
- guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CVE-2018-10237)
- bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator (CVE-2018-1000180)
- cxf: Improper size validation in message attachment header for JAX-WS and JAX-RS services (CVE-2017-12624)
- wildfly: wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (CVE-2018-10862)
- cxf-core: apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.* (CVE-2018-8039)
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.
Solution
Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.
The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).
The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Affected Products
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1515976 - CVE-2017-12624 cxf: Improper size validation in message attachment header for JAX-WS and JAX-RS services
- BZ - 1573391 - CVE-2018-10237 guava: Unbounded memory allocation in AtomicDoubleArray and CompoundOrdering classes allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
- BZ - 1588306 - CVE-2018-1000180 bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator
- BZ - 1593527 - CVE-2018-10862 wildfly-core: Path traversal can allow the extraction of .war archives to write arbitrary files (Zip Slip)
- BZ - 1595332 - CVE-2018-8039 apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=7.1
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/?version=7.1
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.1/html-single/installation_guide/
The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.