RHSA-2023:5488 - Security Advisory

Topic

A security update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.

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

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.13 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.12 and includes bug fixes and enhancements. See the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.13 Release Notes for information about the most significant bug fixes and enhancements included in this release.

Security Fix(es):

• server: eap-7: heap exhaustion via deserialization (CVE-2023-3171)
• log4j: log4j1-chainsaw, log4j1-socketappender: DoS via hashmap logging (CVE-2023-26464)
• nodejs-semver: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2022-25883)
• wildfly-core: Management User RBAC permission allows unexpected reading of system-properties to an Unauthorized actor (CVE-2023-4061)
• tough-cookie: prototype pollution in cookie memstore (CVE-2023-26136)
• bouncycastle: potential blind LDAP injection attack using a self-signed certificate (CVE-2023-33201)
• netty: netty-handler: SniHandler 16MB allocation (CVE-2023-34462)

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

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2182864 - CVE-2023-26464 log4j1-chainsaw, log4j1-socketappender: DoS via hashmap logging
• BZ - 2213639 - CVE-2023-3171 eap-7: heap exhaustion via deserialization
• BZ - 2215465 - CVE-2023-33201 bouncycastle: potential blind LDAP injection attack using a self-signed certificate
• BZ - 2216475 - CVE-2022-25883 nodejs-semver: Regular expression denial of service
• BZ - 2216888 - CVE-2023-34462 netty: SniHandler 16MB allocation leads to OOM
• BZ - 2219310 - CVE-2023-26136 tough-cookie: prototype pollution in cookie memstore
• BZ - 2228608 - CVE-2023-4061 wildfly-core: Management User RBAC permission allows unexpected reading of system-properties to an Unauthorized actor
• JBEAP-24667 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Ironjacamar from 1.5.11.Final-redhat-00001 to 1.5.15.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-24966 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade RESTEasy from 3.15.7.Final-redhat-00001 to 3.15.8.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-24985 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Artemis from 2.16.0.redhat-00048 to 2.16.0.redhat-00049
• JBEAP-25032 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Undertow from 2.2.25.SP3-redhat-00001 to 2.2.26.SP1-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25033 - (7.4.z) Upgrade WildFly Core from 15.0.29.Final-redhat-00001 to 15.0.30.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25078 - (7.4.z) Upgrade netty from 4.1.86.Final-redhat-00001 to 4.1.94.Final-redhat-00001 (resolves CVE-2023-34462)
• JBEAP-25122 - (7.4.z) Upgrade jboss-marshalling from 2.0.13.Final-redhat-00001 to 2.0.13.SP1-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25135 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Elytron from 1.15.17.Final-redhat-00001 to 1.15.20.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25186 - (7.4.z) Upgrade hal console from 3.3.18.Final-redhat-00001 to 3.3.19.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25200 - (7.4.z) Upgrade Hibernate ORM from 5.3.30.Final-redhat-00001 to 5.3.31.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25225 - (7.4.z) Upgrade mod_cluster from 1.4.4.Final-redhat-00001 to 1.4.5.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25261 - (7.4.z) NettyConnection.batchBufferSize() is broken after upgrading netty to 4.1.94.Final
• JBEAP-25285 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade JBoss Modules from 1.12.0.Final-redhat-00001 to 1.12.2.Final-redhat-00001
• JBEAP-25312 - [GSS](7.4.z) Upgrade xnio from 3.8.9.Final-redhat-00001 to 3.8.10.Final-redhat-00001

CVEs

• CVE-2022-25883
• CVE-2023-3171
• CVE-2023-4061
• CVE-2023-26136
• CVE-2023-26464
• CVE-2023-33201
• CVE-2023-34462

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=securityPatches&product=appplatform&version=7.4
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/html-single/installation_guide/