RHSA-2020:4257 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.

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 7.3 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3.

Security Fix(es):

• wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL (CVE-2020-25644)

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, 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).

You must restart the JBoss server process for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1885485 - CVE-2020-25644 wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL

CVEs

• CVE-2020-25644

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=securityPatches&product=appplatform&version=7.3
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.3/html-single/installation_guide/