RHSA-2022:7143 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Core Services.

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 JBoss Core Services is a set of supplementary software for Red Hat JBoss middleware products. This software, such as Apache HTTP Server, is common to multiple JBoss middleware products and packaged under Red Hat JBoss Core Services, to allow for faster distribution of updates and for a more consistent update experience.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.51 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 Service Pack 10, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• httpd: Request splitting via HTTP/2 method injection and mod_proxy (CVE-2021-33193)
• httpd: mod_proxy_uwsgi: out-of-bounds read via a crafted request uri-path (CVE-2021-36160)
• httpd: Out-of-bounds write in ap_escape_quotes() via malicious input (CVE-2021-39275)
• httpd: NULL pointer dereference via crafted request during HTTP/2 request processing (CVE-2021-41524)
• httpd: possible NULL dereference or SSRF in forward proxy configurations (CVE-2021-44224)

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

Applications using the APR libraries, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically.

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1966728 - CVE-2021-33193 httpd: Request splitting via HTTP/2 method injection and mod_proxy
• BZ - 2005119 - CVE-2021-39275 httpd: Out-of-bounds write in ap_escape_quotes() via malicious input
• BZ - 2005124 - CVE-2021-36160 httpd: mod_proxy_uwsgi: out-of-bounds read via a crafted request uri-path
• BZ - 2010934 - CVE-2021-41524 httpd: NULL pointer dereference via crafted request during HTTP/2 request processing
• BZ - 2034672 - CVE-2021-44224 httpd: possible NULL dereference or SSRF in forward proxy configurations

CVEs

• CVE-2021-33193
• CVE-2021-36160
• CVE-2021-39275
• CVE-2021-41524
• CVE-2021-44224

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_core_services/2.4.51/html-single/red_hat_jboss_core_services_apache_http_server_2.4.51_release_notes/index