Synopsis

Important: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.0 Service Pack 4 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this release 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 Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache HTTP Server, the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, Apache Tomcat Connector (mod_jk), JBoss HTTP Connector (mod_cluster), Hibernate, and the Tomcat Native library.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 Service Pack 4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1, and includes bug fixes, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

• tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable 'supportsCredentials' for all origins (CVE-2018-8014)
• tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP invalid response (CVE-2018-8019)
• tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP responses can allow clients to authenticate with revoked certificates (CVE-2018-8020)

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

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:

• OpenSSL (1.0.2n)
• APR (1.6.3)

CVE-2018-8019 and CVE-2018-8020 were discovered by Coty Sutherland (Red Hat).

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Web Server installation (including all applications and configuration files).

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1579611 - CVE-2018-8014 tomcat: Insecure defaults in CORS filter enable 'supportsCredentials' for all origins
• BZ - 1581569 - CVE-2018-8020 tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP responses can allow clients to authenticate with revoked certificates
• BZ - 1583998 - CVE-2018-8019 tomcat-native: Mishandled OCSP invalid response

CVEs

• CVE-2018-8014
• CVE-2018-8019
• CVE-2018-8020

References