Important: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.18 security update
Security Advisory: Important
An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 and 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 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.
[Updated 21st November 2017]
Previously, this erratum was marked as a replacement of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16 Natives. This was incorrect; the erratum is an update, not a replacement. The erratum text has been modified to reflect this.
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.
This release provides an update to httpd and OpenSSL. The updates are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.
OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
This release of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.18 Natives serves as an update to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.16 Natives and includes bug fixes which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
All users of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 Natives are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.
Security Fix(es):
Red Hat would like to thank OpenVPN for reporting CVE-2016-2183 and Hanno Böck for reporting CVE-2017-9798. Upstream acknowledges Karthikeyan Bhargavan (Inria) and Gaëtan Leurent (Inria) as the original reporters of CVE-2016-2183.
Bug Fix(es):
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
After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically. For the update to take effect, all services linked to the OpenSSL library must be restarted, or the system rebooted. The JBoss server process must be restarted for the update to take effect.