Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5410 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-12-14
Updated:
2020-12-14

RHSA-2020:5410 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.8 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for Red Hat Data Grid is now available.

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 Data Grid is a distributed, in-memory, NoSQL datastore based on the Infinispan project.

This release of Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.8 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.7 and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are described in the Release Notes, linked to in the References section of this erratum.

Security Fix(es):

  • wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL (CVE-2020-25644)
  • jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE) (CVE-2020-25649)

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.

Solution

To install this update, do the following:

1. Download the Data Grid 7.3.8 server patch from the customer portal. See the download link in the References section.
2. Back up your existing Data Grid installation. You should back up databases, configuration files, and so on.
3. Install the Data Grid 7.3.8 server patch. Refer to the 7.3 Release Notes for patching instructions.
4. Restart Data Grid to ensure the changes take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1885485 - CVE-2020-25644 wildfly-openssl: memory leak per HTTP session creation in WildFly OpenSSL
  • BZ - 1887664 - CVE-2020-25649 jackson-databind: FasterXML DOMDeserializer insecure entity expansion is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.