RHSA-2020:3731 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.

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 is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This asynchronous patch is an update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4. All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Security Fix(es):

• jbossweb: tomcat: multiple requests with invalid payload length in a WebSocket frame could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-13935)

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

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 Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1875176 - CVE-2020-14384 jbossweb: Incomplete fix of CVE-2020-13935 for WebSocket in JBossWeb could lead to DoS
• BZ - 1875869 - Tracker bug for the EAP 6.4.23 text only security update

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14384

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?product=appplatform&downloadType=securityPatches&version=6.4
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/6.4/