RHSA-2021:5138 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 AMQ Streams, based on the Apache Kafka project, offers a distributed backbone that allows microservices and other applications to share data with extremely high throughput and extremely low latency.

This release of Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.8.0, and includes security and bug fixes, and enhancements.

Security Fix(es):

• log4j-core: Remote code execution in Log4j 2.x when logs contain an attacker-controlled string value (CVE-2021-44228)

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 (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Middleware Text-Only Advisories for MIDDLEWARE 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2030932 - CVE-2021-44228 log4j-core: Remote code execution in Log4j 2.x when logs contain an attacker-controlled string value

CVEs

• CVE-2021-44228

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=jboss.amq.streams&version=1.8.4
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-009