RHSA-2021:1203 - Security Advisory

Topic

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

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 the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link for the update. You must be logged in to download the update.

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Web Server Text-Only Advisories 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