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Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-8656 CVE-2016-9589 CVE-2016-8656 CVE-2016-9589 CVE-2016-8656 CVE-2016-9589

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Synopsis

Important: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.5 on RHEL 6

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6.

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 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7.

This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.5 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0.4, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.

Security Fix(es):

It was discovered that the jboss init script performed unsafe file handling which could result in local privilege escalation. (CVE-2016-8656)
It was found that JBoss EAP 7 Header Cache was inefficient. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack. (CVE-2016-9589)

Red Hat would like to thank Gabriel Lavoie (Halogen Software) for reporting CVE-2016-9589.

Solution

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

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

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6 i386
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 x86_64
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 i386

Fixes

BZ - 1400344 - CVE-2016-8656 jboss: jbossas: unsafe chown of server.log in jboss init script allows privilege escalation
BZ - 1404782 - CVE-2016-9589 wildfly: ParseState headerValuesCache can be exploited to fill heap with garbage

CVEs

References

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