Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:0219 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-01-20
Updated:
2022-01-20

RHSA-2022:0219 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.6 release and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.6 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 1.6.6 serves as a replacement for Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.6.5, and includes security and bug fixes, and enhancements. For further information, refer to the release notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

  • Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients (CVE-2021-38153)
  • log4j-core: DoS in log4j 2.x with Thread Context Map (MDC) input data contains a recursive lookup and context lookup pattern (CVE-2021-45105)

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 - 2009041 - CVE-2021-38153 Kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients
  • BZ - 2034067 - CVE-2021-45105 log4j-core: DoS in log4j 2.x with Thread Context Map (MDC) input data contains a recursive lookup and context lookup pattern

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