RHSA-2021:1202 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for 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 12 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1.11, and includes bug fixes, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

• openssl: NULL pointer dereference in signature_algorithms processing (CVE-2021-3449)
• openssl: CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT (CVE-2021-3450)

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

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 Web Server 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1941547 - CVE-2021-3450 openssl: CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT
• BZ - 1941554 - CVE-2021-3449 openssl: NULL pointer dereference in signature_algorithms processing

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3449
• CVE-2021-3450

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important