Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.15 update on RHEL 7

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-9606   CVE-2016-9606   CVE-2016-9606  

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.15 update on RHEL 7

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7.

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 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 6.4.15 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.14, 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 under certain conditions RESTEasy could be forced to parse a request with YamlProvider, resulting in unmarshalling of potentially untrusted data. An attacker could possibly use this flaw execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the application using RESTEasy. (CVE-2016-9606)

Red Hat would like to thank Moritz Bechler (AgNO3 GmbH & Co. KG) for reporting these issues.

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 6.4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 ppc64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for RHEL 7 ppc64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1400644 - CVE-2016-9606 Resteasy: Yaml unmarshalling vulnerable to RCE
  • BZ - 1437094 - RHEL7 RPMs: Upgrade resteasy to 2.3.19.Final-redhat-1
  • BZ - 1437097 - RHEL7 RPMs: Upgrade ironjacamar-eap6 to 1.0.38.Final-redhat-3

CVEs

References