RHSA-2022:0439 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-maven36-log4j12 is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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

Log4j is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets.

Security Fix(es):

• log4j: SQL injection in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JDBCAppender (CVE-2022-23305)
• log4j: Unsafe deserialization flaw in Chainsaw log viewer (CVE-2022-23307)
• log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSSink (CVE-2022-23302)

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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2041949 - CVE-2022-23302 log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSSink
• BZ - 2041959 - CVE-2022-23305 log4j: SQL injection in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JDBCAppender
• BZ - 2041967 - CVE-2022-23307 log4j: Unsafe deserialization flaw in Chainsaw log viewer

CVEs

• CVE-2022-23302
• CVE-2022-23305
• CVE-2022-23307

References

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